SPIRIT signs Quanta and becomes the dominant voice engine player on the global mobile OEMs/ODMs market

VON Spring 2007, San Jose - March 19, 2007 – SPIRIT DSP, the world's leading provider of embedded voice, video and audio software products, today announced that Quanta Computer Inc., a Global Fortune 500 company and the world’s leading mobile equipment OEM and design house, has chosen SPIRIT voice processing solution for its smart phones and PDAs.

Adding Quanta to other SPIRIT mobile voice customers including Compal Communications and HTC, makes SPIRIT the dominant provider of voice and video enhancement software for mobile OEMs/ODMs worldwide.

SPIRIT voice processing solution will be integrated into the Quanta smart phones, ensuring outstanding performance while saving power consumption. Under the framework agreement between the two companies, Quanta will use SPIRIT voice processing technologies in multiple devices.

“Just three SPIRIT mobile customers – Quanta, HTC and Compal, combined, own more than 55% of the global mobile OEMs/ODMs market share together, having shipped more than 83M smart-phone handsets in 2006. SPIRIT is constantly gearing up in this market,” stated Slava Borilin, VP Products at SPIRIT DSP. “The leading mobile operators like O2, T-Mobile, Orange, Vodafone and the biggest Asian mobile network operators now take advantage of real benefits of SPIRIT voice, video and audio engines shipping inside OEM products.”

“SPIRIT is a recognized leader in its field, with a strong quality assurance culture,” said Jason Lin, Corporate Deputy Spokesperson at Quanta Computer. “Quanta clearly understands what is required to meet the ever-increasing mobile operators’ expectations for voice and video, while focusing on quality and availability requirements. We are happy to be working with operators and rely on SPIRIT extensive support for our current and future mobile products.”

SPIRIT voice, audio and video engines enable high quality and low-power VoIP, audio and video over WiFi and 3G networks.

About SPIRIT

SPIRIT DSP (www.spiritDSP.com) employs 140 professionals, has been in the international software licensing business since 1992. A bootstrap company, SPIRIT has been profitable for 14 years. For the last 10 years SPIRIT's focus has been voice, audio, video and data communication software products. SPIRIT counts among its customers Adobe, Agere, ARM, Atmel, Compal, Flextronics, Ericsson, HP, HTC, Kyocera, LG, MediaRing, Microsoft, National Semiconductor, NEC, Nortel Networks, Oracle, Paltalk, Panasonic, Philips Semiconductor, Polycom, Quanta, Radvision, Samsung, Siemens, Texas Instruments, Toshiba and Trinity Convergence, among 200+ other communication OEMs and software vendors. SPIRIT communication software is used in over 80 countries and powers more than 100 million embedded voice channels. SPIRIT DSP is a member of major voice-related developer communities, including Intel® Developer Network, ARM® Connected Community, Philips Nexperia Partnership, TI Third Party Network, TI OMAP Developer Network for Wireless handsets and PDAs. SeeStorm is SPIRIT affiliate for synthetic video conferencing.

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About Quanta Computer

Quanta Computer is a Global Fortune 500 company that is an industry leader in providing technology products to many of the world’s most prestigious electronics companies. Quanta holds the distinction as the world’s largest manufacturer of notebook computers – approximately one in every three notebook computers in the world are manufactured by the Company.

Quanta aims to provide customers with a wide range of system solutions generated by innovative R&D capabilities, fully integrated manufacturing procedure and well managed supply chain services. It has already made forays into several sectors, such as communication, automobile, enterprise, entertainment, wireless, digital home and etc.

Founded in 1988, Quanta is headquartered in Taiwan and has major production facilities in China as well as footprints across the globe. Quanta employs nearly 25,000 employees worldwide. For further information, please visit Quanta’s website at http://www.quantatw.com/.