ZHUHAI, China, April 30 /PRNewswire-Asia/ -- Actions Semiconductor Co., Ltd. (Nasdaq: ACTS), one of China's leading fabless semiconductor companies that provides comprehensive mixed-signal system-on-a-chip (SoC) and multimedia digital signal processing (DSP) solutions for portable consumer electronics, today announced that two new product series will commence volume shipments in May 2009.
The Series 3 product line will be featured in audio media players and personal media player products with mono displays. Actions' Series 3 features a highly integrated design and pin-to-pin compatibility with the Series 11 product line while reducing material costs, R&D efforts for downstream customers and time to market. The Series 3 boasts significant improvements in power management, increasing power efficiency by over 30%, and features a new USB function and is compatible with SD/MMC/MS cards for enhanced transfer speeds.
Actions' new Automotive Series features a 48-pin cost effective design and is compatible with all of the three storage bases typical in the automotive segment: host, NAND flash and cards. This new product line will replace the automotive solutions of its ATJ2063 product family.
'We are very excited to further expand our product portfolio and offer these new product lines to our customers. Both the Series 3 and Automotive Series products are targeted at value oriented end markets, a sector of the consumer electronics market that has experienced significant growth, particularly in China and other emerging markets,' stated Mr. Nan-Horng Yeh, CEO of Actions Semiconductor.
About Actions Semiconductor
Actions Semiconductor is one of China's leading fabless semiconductor companies that provides mixed-signal and multimedia SoC solutions for portable consumer electronics. Actions Semiconductor products include SoCs, firmware, software, solution development kits, as well as detailed specifications of other required components and the providers of those components. Actions Semiconductor also provides total product and technology solutions that allow customers to quickly introduce new portable consumer electronics to the mass market in a cost effective way. The company is headquartered in Zhuhai, China, with offices in Beijing, Shanghai, and Shenzhen.
