"With the number of HDMI ports increasing every year and HDMI port switching delays ranging from four to seven seconds, DTV and AVR manufacturers are beginning to realize that the port switching lag consumers are seeing can't be ignored," said Lew Paceley, DTV marketing director, Silicon Image.

"Switching delays are a major consumer issue and one that hasn't been effectively addressed by the industry," said Randy Lawson, senior analyst of display electronics, iSuppli. "According to iSuppli's latest HDMI technology forecast, the market for HDMI-enabled consumer electronics devices capable of sourcing or displaying high-definition content is expected to grow by over 300 percent from 2007 to 2012, based on ever-increasing user demand for high- definition content from myriad multimedia devices. As a result, more manufacturers need to design in solutions that address the lag time between HDTVs and external source devices."

"Faster port switching performance in HDMI-based DTVs and AVRs is an important innovation. Tweeter strongly endorses the new InstaPort technology from Silicon Image that will allow consumers to more quickly access their HDMI content," said Steve Samson, vice president of systems design and engineering, Tweeter.

InstaPort technology will be incorporated into three new Silicon Image semiconductor products, including the SiI9287 port processor and the SiI9251/SiI9261 input processors, all which will be sampling in July. For more information on InstaPort technology, please visit www.siliconimage.com.

    The iSuppli report referenced can be found at
http://www.isuppli.com/catalog/detail.asp?id=9669.

About Silicon Image

Silicon Image, Inc. is a global leader in driving the architecture and semiconductor implementation for the secure storage, distribution and presentation of high-definition content in the consumer electronics, personal computing, and mobile device markets. With a rich history of technology innovation that includes creating industry standards such as SATA, DVI and HDMI, Silicon Image partners with the world's leading entertainment creators and electronics manufacturers to deliver digital HD content to consumers anytime, anywhere, on any device. Silicon Image is also a leading provider of semiconductor intellectual property solutions for high-definition multimedia and data storage applications. Additionally, Simplay Labs, LLC, a wholly-owned subsidiary of Silicon Image, offers robust testing tools, technologies, support services, consulting and product certification to electronics manufacturers to maximize performance, interoperability and ensure the highest-quality HD experience to consumers. With engineering, sales and customer support facilities located throughout North America, Asia and Europe, Silicon Image (NASDAQ: SIMG) is globally headquartered in Sunnyvale, California. For more information, please visit www.siliconimage.com.

Forward-looking Statements

This news release contains forward-looking statements within the meaning of federal securities laws and regulations including, but not limited to, statements regarding the performance and anticipated benefits of Silicon Image's new InstaPort technology, the SiI9287 port processor and the SiI9251/SiI9261 input processors. These forward-looking statements involve risks and uncertainties, including those described from time to time in Silicon Image's filings with the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC), that could cause the actual results to differ materially from those anticipated by these forward-looking statements. The forward-looking statements included in this press release are made only as of the date of this press release; and Silicon Image assumes no obligation to update any forward- looking statement. Additional information concerning risks and uncertainties that could cause results to differ can be found in the Silicon Image's filings with the Securities and Exchange Commission, including its most recent periodic reports on Form 10-K and Form 10-Q.

Silicon Image, the Silicon Image logo, Simplay Labs, and InstaPort are trademarks, registered trademarks or service marks of Silicon Image, Inc. in the United States and/or other countries. HDMI and High-Definition Multimedia Interface are trademarks or registered trademarks of HDMI Licensing, LLC in the United States and other countries, and are used under license from HDMI Licensing, LLC. All other trademarks and registered trademarks are the property of their respective owners in the Unites States and/or other countries.

SOURCE Silicon Image, Inc.

http://www.siliconimage.com/

"We understand the importance of delivering fully interoperable products with optimized performance to our retailers and customers, and the best way to ensure this is by utilizing the expertise of Simplay Labs and its Simplay HD Testing Program," said ChanHo Youn, assistant manager of the Customer Satisfaction Management Center at Samsung Electronics. "Samsung has used Simplay Labs testing extensively on a variety of consumer electronics devices and, as we expand our Simplay HD participation, the self-testing program will help streamline the process."

The Simplay HD Self-Testing pilot program will include on-site Simplay testing equipment installation, technician training and certification, quality control, collaborative test specification reviews, and integration with product development and supply chain processes.

"We are thrilled to expand our longstanding relationship with Samsung by rolling out the Simplay HD Self-Testing pilot program to support one of our major partners," said Joseph Lias, president of Simplay Labs, LLC. "Working closely with Samsung in defining the parameters of the Simplay HD Testing Program continues to provide consumers the peace of mind that their HD components will work together to deliver a great HD experience."

The Simplay HD Testing Program takes the guesswork out of shopping for HDMI-enabled components such as set-top boxes (STBs), digital televisions (DTVs), digital video disk (DVD) players, cables and audio/video (AV) receivers. Components bearing the Simplay HD logo have demonstrated that they will work together to provide a "plug-and-play" user experience. Consumers can be assured that when they see the Simplay HD logo, the device has passed the industry's most rigorous HD interoperability and performance testing regimen. Service and content providers, retailers and product manufacturers can expect HD equipment compatibility resulting in reduced returns and the satisfaction of their end users.

About Simplay Labs, LLC

Simplay Labs, LLC, based in Sunnyvale, Calif., is the leading solutions provider of technologies, testing programs, development tools, and interoperability and performance design standards for the high-definition (HD) consumer electronics industry. The Simplay HD(TM) Testing Program is comprised of leading consumer electronics manufacturers and technology providers focused on delivering fully compatible products for consumers. As a result, consumers making home theater component purchases can be confident that Simplay HD verified systems exhibit the highest levels of interoperability performance and are ready to receive and play premium digital content, regardless of manufacturer. Simplay Labs is a wholly-owned subsidiary of Silicon Image, Inc. (Nasdaq: SIMG).

Forward-looking Statements

This news release contains forward-looking statements within the meaning of federal securities laws and regulations including, but not limited to, statements regarding the benefits the Simplay HD Testing Program and the Simplay HD Self-Testing pilot program. These forward-looking statements involve risks and uncertainties, including those described from time to time in Silicon Image's filings with the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) that could cause the actual results to differ materially from those anticipated by these forward-looking statements. The forward-looking statements included in this press release are made only as of the date of this press release; and Silicon Image assumes no obligation to update any forward- looking statement. Additional information concerning risks and uncertainties that could cause results to differ can be found in the Silicon Image's filings with the Securities and Exchange Commission, including its most recent periodic reports on Form 10-K and Form 10-Q.

Simplay, Simplay HD and the Simplay HD logo are registered trademarks or trademarks of Silicon Image, Inc. in the United States and/or other countries. HDMI and High-Definition Multimedia Interface are registered trademarks or trademarks of HDMI Licensing, LLC in the United States and/or other countries. All other trademarks and/or registered trademarks are the property of their respective owners.

SOURCE Simplay Labs, LLC

http://www.siliconimage.com/

Osmani joins Silicon Image from RF Micro Devices, where he served as vice president and general manager from 2005 to 2008. Prior to that, Osmani held the position of senior director of engineering at Motorola, leading the architecture and systems engineering team for the cellular handset division.

Osmani has been awarded 13 U.S. patents. He holds a master's degree in electrical engineering from the Illinois Institute of Technology and a master's of technology degree from Jawaharlal Nehru Technological University in Hyderabad, India.

Osmani succeeds Dr. John (H.J.) Shin, who served as Silicon Image's vice president of engineering from October 2003 to March 2008 and now serves as vice president of strategic technology initiatives for the company. Silicon Image will continue to leverage Dr. Shin's deep technical, customer and market experience to maximize new technology initiative development efforts.

"The recent launch of the Serial Port Memory Technology(TM) (SPMT(TM)) and Mobile High Definition Link(TM) (MHL(TM)) initiatives represent significant new technology advances, and I am looking forward to growing our technology portfolio under Dr. Shin's leadership," said Dal Santo.

About Silicon Image

Silicon Image, Inc. is a global leader in driving the architecture and semiconductor implementation for the secure storage, distribution and presentation of high-definition content in the consumer electronics, personal computing, and mobile device markets. With a rich history of technology innovation that includes creating industry standards such as SATA, DVI and HDMI, Silicon Image partners with the world's leading entertainment creators and electronics manufacturers to deliver digital HD content to consumers anytime, anywhere, on any device. Silicon Image is also a leading provider of semiconductor intellectual property solutions for high-definition multimedia and data storage applications. Additionally, Simplay Labs, LLC, a wholly-owned subsidiary of Silicon Image, offers robust testing tools, technologies, support services, consulting and product certification to electronics manufacturers to maximize performance, interoperability and ensure the highest-quality HD experience to consumers. With engineering, sales and customer support facilities located throughout North America, Asia and Europe, Silicon Image (NASDAQ: SIMG) is globally headquartered in Sunnyvale, California. For more information, please visit http://www.siliconimage.com.

Note: Silicon Image, the Silicon Image logo and Simplay HD are trademarks, registered trademarks or service marks of Silicon Image, Inc. in the United States and/or other countries. HDMI is a trademark or registered trademark of HDMI Licensing, LLC in the United States and/or other countries. All other trademarks and registered trademarks are the property of their respective owners in the Unites States and/or other countries.

Forward-looking Statements:

This news release contains forward-looking statements within the meaning of federal securities laws and regulations. These forward-looking statements involve risks and uncertainties, including those described from time to time in Silicon Image's filings with the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) that could cause the actual results to differ materially from those anticipated by these forward-looking statements. The forward-looking statements included in this press release are made only as of the date of this press release; and Silicon Image assumes no obligation to update any forward- looking statement. Additional information concerning factors that could cause results to differ can be found in the Silicon Image's filings with the Securities and Exchange Commission, including its most recent Reports on Form 10-K and Form 10-Q.

SOURCE Silicon Image, Inc.

http://www.siliconimage.com/

"We are pleased to announce our strategic alliance with Silicon Image," said Charlie Ashton, Director of Enablement at AMCC. "The products from our two companies are highly synergistic and complementary, so we are confident that our NAS customers will benefit from the results of this close cooperation, such as optimized reference designs."

AMCC and Silicon Image are working together to define and showcase reference designs optimized for specific NAS applications. Customers will be able to use these proven, baseline designs with high confidence that their end products will be optimized for the applicable market segments.

"We are delighted to be working with AMCC to provide advanced solutions for the rapidly growing NAS market place," said Alex Chervet, director of marketing at Silicon Image. "The combination of Silicon Image's enterprise class port multipliers & controllers and AMCC's market-leading processors provide our mutual customers a quick way to bring proven ultra-high performance designs to market."

Building on a proven architecture, Silicon Image's semiconductors and intellectual property provide the flexibility in system design that allows customers to architect industry-leading solutions for the home to enterprise NAS markets. Silicon Image's SiI 3132(TM) is a single-chip, one-lane PCI Express to 2-port Serial ATA (SATA) II host controller that provides server-class performance. The SiI3132 product supports all Serial ATA II features, including FIS based switching and out of order NCQ data delivery. Silicon Image's SiI3726 is a 1-to-5 Serial ATA (SATA) Port Multiplier designed to provide a high-performance link between a single SATA host port and five SATA device ports. The SiI3726 product gives system designers or end users the flexibility to choose 1.5 Gbps or 3 Gbps SATA hard drives.

About AMCC

AMCC provides leadership semiconductor solutions to process, transport, and store digital information for the world's wired and wireless networks. As a leading supplier of Power Architecture(TM) based processors and with world-class expertise in SONET and Ethernet protocol processing, PHY technology, Storage processors and RAID controllers our products are the foundation of the IP Communications Revolution. AMCC's 3ware(R) SAS and SATA RAID controllers deliver cost-effective, high-performance, high-capacity storage for enterprises and consumers worldwide in applications like disk-to-disk backup, near-line storage, network-attached storage (NAS), video, and high-performance computing. For further information regarding AMCC, please visit our website at http://www.amcc.com.

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This press release contains "forward-looking statements" within the meaning of the Private Securities Litigation Reform Act of 1995. Forward-looking statements may be identified by words such as expects, anticipates, plans, believes, estimates, will or words of similar meaning. Such forward-looking statements, including statements relating to the products discussed in this press release, are subject to a number of risks and uncertainties, including the risk that the products may not be successfully or timely developed, completed or manufactured or achieve market acceptance, risks relating to general economic conditions, as well as the risks and uncertainties set forth in the Company's Annual Report on Form 10-K, and in the Company's other SEC filings. As a result of these risks and uncertainties, actual results may differ materially from these forward-looking statements. The forward-looking statements contained in this press release are made as of the date hereof and AMCC does not assume any obligation to update any forward-looking statement, whether as a result of new information, future developments or otherwise.

About Silicon Image

Silicon Image, Inc. is a global leader in driving the architecture and semiconductor implementation for the secure storage, distribution and presentation of high-definition content in the consumer electronics, personal computing, and mobile device markets. With a rich history of technology innovation that includes creating industry standards such as SATA, DVI and HDMI, Silicon Image partners with the world's leading entertainment creators and electronics manufacturers to deliver digital HD content to consumers anytime, anywhere, on any device. Silicon Image is also a leading provider of semiconductor intellectual property solutions for high-definition multimedia and data storage applications. Additionally, Simplay Labs, LLC, a wholly-owned subsidiary of Silicon Image, offers robust testing tools, technologies, support services, consulting and product certification to electronics manufacturers to maximize performance, interoperability and ensure the highest-quality HD experience to consumers. With engineering, sales and customer support facilities located throughout North America, Asia and Europe, Silicon Image (NASDAQ: SIMG) is globally headquartered in Sunnyvale, California. For more information, please visit www.siliconimage.com.

Forward-looking Statements

This news release contains forward-looking statements within the meaning of federal securities laws and regulations including, but not limited to, statements regarding the performance and anticipated benefits of Silicon Image's products and the benefits to intended customers of the collaboration between Silicon Image and AMCC. These forward-looking statements involve risks and uncertainties, including those described from time to time in Silicon Image's filings with the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC), that could cause the actual results to differ materially from those anticipated by these forward-looking statements. The forward-looking statements included in this press release are made only as of the date of this press release; and Silicon Image assumes no obligation to update any forward-looking statement. Additional information concerning risks and uncertainties that could cause results to differ can be found in the Silicon Image's filings with the Securities and Exchange Commission, including its most recent periodic reports on Form 10-K and Form 10-Q.

AMCC and 3ware are registered trademarks of APPLIED MICRO CIRCUITS CORPORATION. Power Architecture is a trademark licensed by Power.org. All other trademarks are property of their respective owners.

Silicon Image, the Silicon Image logo and Simplay HD are trademarks, registered trademarks or service marks of Silicon Image, Inc. in the United States and/or other countries. HDMI is a trademark or registered trademark of HDMI Licensing, LLC in the United States and/or other countries. All other trademarks and registered trademarks are the property of their respective owners in the Unites States and/or other countries.

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