About A-MAX
A-MAX is the leading IDS (Innovative Design Services) provider of portable
audio devices for global reputable brand-names in the portable digital audio
industry and the consumer product retailers."
With 40GB of storage capacity, PhotoBank holds over 40,000 photos (at 800KB
file size) and can be connected directly to a PC to offload images to share
with family and friends.

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In addition, TI's low-power, high performance DSP can handle all
of the processing required for a portable player with overhead remaining,
allowing manufacturers to differentiate their products by adding more
features.

About SmartDisk Corporation

SmartDisk is a leading provider of portable, network and multimedia storage
products and technologies that enable people to enjoy, share and preserve
digital content and information.

Hardware devices that display e-book material (text and images) for reading.

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Headquartered in Hong Kong,
A-MAX specializes in one-stop open platform services including innovative
product/system design, moulding, product manufacturing, on-shelf packaging,
logistics and other related services.

Trademarks
All registered trademarks and other trademarks belong to their respective
owners.

eBooks are digital versions of books that can be read on home computers,
smartphones and some personal digital assistants.

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Texas Instruments is traded on the New York Stock Exchange under the
symbol TXN .

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A-MAX will help TI meet
customers' needs to get to market quickly with high performance products ,
while reducing system design complexity and manufacturing costs.com.

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A-MAX and Texas Instruments Help Expand Portable Media Player and Audio Jukebox Market

(A-MAX), the leading Innovative Design Services (IDS)
supplier of portable audio devices to global brand manufacturers in the
portable consumer electronics industry, today announced that A-MAX will be
supporting TI's digital signal processor (DSP) technology for developing and
manufacturing two advanced portable digital entertainment products. TI is headquartered in
Dallas, Texas, and has manufacturing, design or sales operations in more than
25 countries.

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"Together, we are introducing a new level of
product features and functionality that has previously been unavailable,
helping us expand our offerings and opening up new doors in portable
entertainment."

About Texas Instruments
Texas Instruments Incorporated provides innovative DSP and analog
technologies to meet our customers' real world signal processing requirements.
SmartDisk Corporation, a leading provider of
portable, network and multimedia storage products and technologies, today
introduced PhotoBank, a USB photo storage device .

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Devices based on TI's DSP-based solutions are
programmable and can be updated through software upgrades to incorporate new
features and functionality, helping differentiate the product from its
competitors.
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"Handheld PhotoBank offers a quick, convenient, easy way to directly
transfer digital photos from your camera," states Charles Klinker, Vice
President of Marketing for SmartDisk.

Pricing and Availability

PhotoBank will be available in 40GB capacity in March for $179.com. "We're
really glad to be able to provide this service. It's going to be very
popular.

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Bringing
together these two leaders in the portable digital entertainment hardware
market will provide manufacturers with low cost, high quality, production-
ready products to help speed time to market and ease design issues. TI's DSP-based technology enables A-MAX to
reach new markets and offer manufacturers feature-rich portable media player
and audio jukeboxes. More information is located on the World Wide Web at
http://www. The books can be read on home computers or
transferred to portable devices for reading and listening.

Patrons may download six books at a time and place holds on up to 10
titles."

The first time patrons download a book, they will be asked to install and
register the free software that runs the service, which is called
"OverDrive.

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Original Equipment Manufacturers (OEM) can contact A-MAX
now to begin development on these portable entertainment applications.
Leveraging TI's comprehensive DSP-based digital audio processor, A-MAX can
pack the most advanced digital entertainment functionality available into an
audio HDD player that can fit in a shirt pocket.lib.

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price through distributors, retail stores and at the company's Web site at
http://www. Headquartered in the U.

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PhotoBank is being
demonstrated in Booth 4927 at PMA2006 in Orlando, Florida, February 23
through March 1., with operations
in Europe and Asia, SmartDisk sells and supports its products worldwide.

With this service, patrons can use their library cards to log on to the
Library's Web site at http://spl.

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com/portableaudio8 . The LCD status indicator and the single key enable
reliable, quick one-step transfer.

While patrons may browse the collection and check out a digital book from
Library locations, they won't be able to download digital books because the
Library computers do not have downloading capabilities .

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PRESS RELEASE SmartDisk Introduces PhotoBank Image Storage Device

For more information, go to http://www.smartdisk.overdrive.

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Digital Entertainment Device Manufacturers Have New Resource for Developing
Advanced Consumer Applications

DALLAS, Extending their reach in the portable
entertainment market, Texas Instruments Incorporated (NYSE: TXN) (TI) and
A-MAX Technology, Ltd.
The Seattle Public Library announced today a
new online service that will offer patrons access to a collection of
hundreds of downloadable digital audio books and eBooks from their home
computers. The books are automatically returned after the three-week lending
period .

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(See
http://www. The PMP can record from or display to a TV, and it can
store and play full -length movies on its color display -- making it a virtual
video store and movie theater in the palm of the hand. With over 1,800 employees worldwide, A-MAX currently has two R+D
centers in the PRC , a wholly owned ISO9002 approved manufacturing plant in
Shenzhen, PRC and three sales offices in the PRC, Germany and the U.

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"By partnering with leading design manufacturers like A-MAX, TI can expand
its reach in the portable digital entertainment market," said Raj Talluri ,
worldwide manager of the Imaging and Audio Group, Texas Instruments.S.com, and check out and
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Building on its experience in design, development, manufacturing and
distribution of high quality portable digital media products, A-MAX has
expanded its product design offerings beyond basic MP3 players to advanced
digital entertainment centers. TI works with its vast third
party network to provide all of the building blocks and software tools for
feature-rich devices , supporting the most popular video, audio and imaging
formats, including D1 resolution for movies , high resolution digital images
and video encoding.S.

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"Building on our leadership in the MP3 player market, TI has enabled us to
enter new product markets that will allow us to differentiate our devices,"
said Victor Chan, CEO of A-MAX. A-MAX's key products include flash
memory-based audio players, hard drive-based audio players and WMA-MP3 CD
players. It features general fiction , mysteries, science fiction
and fantasy, romance, nonfiction and more.

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PRESS RELEASE The Seattle Public Library Adds New Service: Patrons Can Download Digital Audio Books and eBooks

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With TI's Digital Media processors, A-MAX is now able to supply OEMs with
production-ready portable media players (PMP). For instance, an audio HDD player is now able to incorporate
slideshows, which can be created on the device by attaching a music playlist
to a series of photos and then shown on the color LCD . "As the
portable entertainment market continues to evolve, the demand to provide OEMs
with production -ready devices is steadily increasing.com . Patrons can listen to
audio books on personal computers and some audio devices, though iPods are
not compatible with the format.

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In addition to Semiconductor , the company's businesses include Sensors +
Controls, and Educational + Productivity Solutions. "Simply insert your flash memory card
into PhotoBank and, with one touch, copy and safely store your photos.

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This TI-enabled audio
jukebox can play and record all of the most popular audio formats, as well as
support games and play MJPEG and MPEG-4 movies and display BMP and JPEG images
in full color on the player.

"It will be great for a patron to be able to download , for example, a copy
of 'The Historian' by Elizabeth Kostova and listen to it while they're out
running ," said Tom Horne, the Library's selection services manager."

The collection, which includes hundreds of titles for adults, children and
teens, was selected by Library staff to fit the reading and listening
tastes of patrons.