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2010.08.05

2010-08-05T09:51:40Z

THine releases V-by-One® HS Standard version 1.3 ]]> TOKYO (August 5, 2010) -- THine Electronics, Inc. (JASDAQ: 6769), the global leader in high-speed serial interface and provider of mixed-signal LSI for flat panel displays and mobile phones, announced today that THine releases V-by-One® HS Standard version 1.3 in order to contribute cost down of 3D televisions and support the resolution of Cinema Full HD of the 21:9 aspect ratio, in accordance with the new trends of viewing 3D televisions and internet televisions.

V-by-One®HS Standard is developed to provide solutions to develop better picture qualities and reduce total costs of television sets. In 2007 the brief specification of V-by-One®HS Standard is disclosed by THine, in 2008 the full specification version is disclosed, and until today it is widely evaluated or selected in television markets and document processing markets. For example, while 3D televisions with 240 Hz frame rate panels requires 48 LVDS cable pairs, they need only 8 pairs if they use V-by-One®HS interface.

V-by-One®HS achieves the high-speed transmitter/receiver of 3.75Gbps per pair cable. This marvelous feature results in improving signal quality, reducing EMI, lowering energy consumption, and decreasing total costs including cables and connectors. THine has delivered V-by-One®HS Standard to almost one hundred companies and has granted royalty free specification rights to V-by-One®HS partners. V-by-One®HS Standard has been penetrated widely in major suppliers of televisions and document processing equipments.

The major features of V-by-One®HS Standard version1.3 are the following two points:

1) 3D frame identification. Since 3D televisions have identification on every frame, method to label 3D information on frame are described in V-by-One®HS Standard version1.3. This definition enables the television sets to identify right views and left views smoothly in 3D televisions and reduce engineering hours and adjusting activities in developing new 3D models among television set makers, FRC venders, and panel venders.

2) Data lane of Cinema Full HD, including 2560x1080p. In addition, V-by-One®HS Standard version1.3 defines the number of data lanes for Cinema Full HD of the 21:9 aspect ratio, including 2560x1080p resolution. In fact, V-by-One®HS Standard version1.3 requires the industry-fewest 4 data lanes for the 120Hz refresh rate or the pixel clock of 370MHz. Thus, the new version can support the increase of 3D televisions as well as internet televisions. Also V-by-One®HS users can obtain cost advantages in internal interface systems.

World major television makers and related parts makers are going to adopt or interested in V-by-One®HS and they are developing their new strategic products with V-by-One®HS. Moreover, global leaders in digital TV controllers with high market shares announce to deliver samples with V-by-One®HS and major FPGA suppliers supports V-by-One®HS. In addition, cable makers, connector makers, and test/measurement equipments makers have already deliver their products that support V-by-One®HS.

V-by-One®HS Standards is expected to penetrate more widely by incorporating new trends in television markets.

��Key features of V-by-One® HS Standard version 1.3

��3D frame identification

��Minimal interface design for Cinema Full HD and 4Kx2K resolution

��High data transmission quality solving cable skew problems with high speed SerDes using Clock Data Recovery technology

��High transmission quality with high performance equalizer in noisy conditions

��Lower EMI with clock embedded transmission, No reference clock at receiver

��Total cost and space reduction by reducing number of cables and connectors

��Seamless transition from LVDS to V-by-One®HS minimizing change of device input/output and peripheral design

��Lower energy consumption with variable transmission speed

��Ease of use

About THine Electronics

THine Electronics, Inc. is a fabless LSI company that provides innovative mixed signal LSI and analog technologies such as V-by-One®HS, LVDS, other high speed data signaling, timing controller, Analog-to-Digital Converter (ADC), Image Signal Processor (ISP), radio frequency (RF) and power management in growing niche markets for our customers’ solutions, targeting its strategic markets in flat screen TVs, electronic paper displays, LCD monitors, projectors, projection televisions, mobile phones, document processing, amusement, and automotive markets.

THine is headquartered in Tokyo, Japan, and has design centers in Kyoto and Kyushu, Japan, as well as subsidiaries in Taipei, Taiwan and Seoul, Korea. THine Electronics is listed on the JASDAQ under the security code of 6769. For more information, please visit www.thine.co.jp.

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2010.05.11

2010-05-11T01:08:54Z

THine introduces new power management LSI for 3D television markets TOKYO (May 11, 2010) -- THine Electronics, Inc. (JASDAQ: 6769) today introduced its new power management LSI, THV3058, for advanced television markets, such as 3D televisions and 240 Hz refresh rate panels. THV3058 is available now in volume production.

THine’s new product, THV3058, achieves complicated power management systems required to 3D televisions and other advanced televisions only by one chip. The advanced television markets of 3D televisions and 240 Hz refresh rate panels are growing rapidly. Since these televisions have higher-speed refresh rates, driver ICs of LCD panels need more electric current. These advanced televisions therefore require more complicated power management systems.

THV3058 has DC/DC converter control functions with pulse frequency modulation (PFM) as well as usual charge pump functions to supply large capacity electric currency for driver ICs with high-speed refresh rates.

THV3058 saves energy consumption in power management LSIs by at most 30% compared to usual power management LSI*1. In addition, this new products achieved more reliable systems by adding new function for protecting from over current as well as usual system protection functions.

*1: compared by THine Electronics

THine plans to introduce new values of power management continuously, responding to demands in television markets with higher performance, lower energy consumption, and more efficiency.

�� Features of THV3058

Power channel

��buck converter for timing controllers

��synchronous buck converter for frame rate converters

��boost converter for source drivers

��charge pump for gate drivers with high voltage or boost converter with PFM

��charge pump for gate drivers with low voltage or inverting converter with PFM

��high-voltage tolerant low drop out (LDO) for gamma DAC

Protection function

��over current protection

��over voltage protection

��thermal shut down

��short circuit protection

��prevention from inrush current

��under voltage lock out

Package

��QFN 5.0mm×5.0mm×0.9mm with 36 pins

��the smallest package among power management LSIs with 2 channel buck converters for advanced television panels

About THine Electronics, Inc.

THine Electronics Incorporated is a fabless maker that provides innovative mixed signal LSI and analog technologies such as V-by-One®HS, LVDS, other high speed data signaling, timing controller, Analog-to-Digital Converter (ADC), Image Signal Processor (ISP), radio frequency (RF) and power management in growing niche markets for our customers’ solutions, targeting its strategic markets in flat screen TVs, electronic paper displays, LCD monitors, projectors, projection televisions, mobile phones, document processing, amusement, and automotive markets.

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2010.03.01

2010-03-01T04:59:27Z

THine announces the establishment of a Korean subsidiary TOKYO (March 1, 2010) -- THine Electronics, Inc. (JASDAQ: 6769, “THine”), the global leader in high-speed serial interface and provider of mixed-signal LSI, today announces the establishment of Korean subsidiary in order to achieve its Business Strategy, “TACK123.”

1. Purpose of establishing the subsidiary

THine Electronics has started its new Business Strategy “TACK123” since this fiscal year, targeting business expansion in Asia, including Korean markets. In order to achieve the goal of “TACK123,” THine has decided to establish the Korean subsidiary, THine Electronics Korea, Inc. with the purpose to enhance Asian business capabilities as well as Taiwan subsidiary.

2. Outline of subsidiary to be established

(1) Company name: THine Electronics Korea, Inc.

(2) Representative: Fumitaka Nishikawa

(3) Head office location: Seoul, Korea

(4) Establishment date: March 10th, 2010 (Scheduled)

(5) Business content: Planning, designing, and sales of LSI

(6) Capital: 300 million won

(7) Shareholder: THine Electronics, Inc. (100%)

(8) Fiscal period December

(9) Business starting date: April 1st, 2010 (Scheduled)

* Schedules may be changed due to procedures.

About Business Strategy, “TACK123”

THine Electronics has started its new Business Strategy “TACK123” toward 2012 since this fiscal year.

“TACK” stands for “Toward Asia: China, Taiwan, and Korea,” and is also originally from the yacht “tack” action of going forward against the wind by changing the sailing direction. “TACK123” aims to expand our business by 2012 up to 3 times, cultivating our business relationships with Asian partners.

About THine Electronics

THine Electronics Incorporated is a fabless maker that provides innovative mixed signal LSI and analog technologies such as V-by-One®HS, LVDS, other high speed data signaling, timing controller, Analog-to-Digital Converter (ADC), Image Signal Processor (ISP), radio frequency (RF) and power management in growing niche markets for our customers’ solutions, targeting its strategic markets in flat TVs, LCD monitors, projectors, projection televisions, mobile phones, and automotive markets.

THine is headquartered in Tokyo, Japan, and has design centers in Kyoto and Kyushu, Japan, as well as subsidiaries in Tokyo and Taipei, Taiwan. THine Electronics is listed on the JASDAQ under the security code of 6769. For more information, please visit��www.thine.co.jp.

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2010.01.26

2010-01-29T07:22:30Z

THine Announces Industry’s Fastest ISP with 13 Mega Pixels for Mobile Cameras ]]> TOKYO (January 26, 2010) -- THine Electronics, Inc. (JASDAQ: 6769, “THine”), the global leader in high-speed serial interface and provider of mixed-signal LSI, today announces industry’s fastest* image signal processor (ISP) product THP9112 with 13 mega pixels, as well as THP9108 with 8 mega pixels, for mobile cameras, PDA cameras, and digital still cameras (DSC).

The new ISP products achieve as high resolution and quality as compact DSC by the world fastest throughput by processing performance of resolution and frame rates. THP9112 and THP9108 bring mobile cameras to differentiate in quick boot time of DSC function. In addition, these new products, enabling high-speed processing by internal LSI hardware, achieve faster image stabilization and motion detection than usual products by outside software algorithm. These offer optimal ISP solution for high-resolution mobile cameras, PDA cameras, and DSC.

�� Features of THP9112 and THP9108
Advanced image processing
- support up to 13 M pixels (THP9112) and 8 M pixels (THP9108)
- advanced noise reduction
- digital zooming - wide dynamic range correction
- memory color enhancement and chroma correction (including skin color correction)
- high performance lens shading correction

Camera shake detection and correction
- support full HD movie
- high-speed anti-shaking is also available for movie
- high-speed motion detection processed by hardware
- continuous shooting
- preservation of past shooting

Interface to image sensot
- MIPI CSI-2 serial / parallel

Interface to backend processor
- parallel

Embedded Memory
- internal frame memory: 128 M bit
- internal working memory: 32 KB

Package
��BGA (MCP) 8mm×8mm x 1.2mmBGA
��ball size / pitch: 0.3mm/0.5mm

THP9112 and THP9108 have been developed by THine’s ISP team acquired from Winbond Electronics, Inc. in January 2009. The ISP team has been merged to THine’s headquarters in July 2009 and has already been developing advanced ISP technology with higher resolution than 13 mega pixels. These ISP products of 8 mega pixels, 5 mega, and 3 mega have been shipped by almost 5 million pieces to Japanese customers. THine plans to expand ISP business to global customers, especially in China and Taiwan, supporting market needs of mobile phone handsets customers.
* based on THine’s research in ISP products for cell phone markets in volume production as of today

About THine Electronics
THine Electronics Incorporated is a fabless maker that provides innovative mixed signal LSI and analog technologies such as V-by-One®HS, LVDS, other high speed data signaling, timing controller, Analog-to-Digital Converter (ADC), Image Signal Processor (ISP), RF and power management in growing niche markets for our customers’ solutions, targeting its strategic markets in flat TVs, LCD monitors, projectors, projection televisions, mobile phones, and automotive markets. THine is headquartered in Tokyo, Japan, and has design centers in Kyoto and Kyushu, Japan, as well as subsidiaries in Tokyo and Taipei, Taiwan. THine Electronics is listed on the JASDAQ under the security code of 6769. For more information, please visit www.thine.co.jp.

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2009.10.27

2009-10-26T23:49:16Z

THine releases new products of V-by-One® HS specially designed for multifunction printers, cameras, and amusement markets

]]> Tokyo (October 27, 2009) – THine Electronics, Inc. (JASDAQ:6769), the global leader in high-speed serial interface and provider of mixed-signal LSI for flat panel displays, announced today that THine releases new products of its high-speed serial interface of THCV233 and THCV234 as families of V-by-One® HS, specially designed for wide markets visual data related markets such as multifunction printers, cameras, and amusement markets .

V-by-One® HS has been developed to offer high speed solutions with lower costs and EMI for long distance. The new V-by-One® HS products, THCV233 and THCV234, also achieving the high-speed of 3Gbps, can be applied to various markets such as multifunction printers, industrial cameras, security cameras, scanners for consumers, amusement, factory automation equipments, medical equipments. THine’s high-speed technology reduces number of cables and enables to decrease costs of cables as well as EMI, enhancing noise tolerance drastically, downsizing key components such as moving head of scanners, transmitting digital data for long distance.

For example, multifunction printers, shifting to higher resolution with full colors, require more high-speed data transmission from scanner to controlling print circuit boards. V-by-One® HS technology can reduces number of cables to one sixth of current LVDS interface cables and engineers can design downsized scanner heads and related parts.

In addition, THCV233 and THCV234 enhance noise tolerant features drastically in order to communicate control data between scanner heads and controllers more easily and reduce corresponding noise related costs.

THCV233 and THCV234 are designed also for camera application markets such as industrial cameras and security cameras. This chipset enables to transmit real-time pixel data for as long distance as 20 meters without data compression. Further more, using its sub-links, this chipset can communicate control data between camera modules and controlling PCs, reducing influence from noises drastically without adding cables to V-by-One® HS interface systems. Camera systems with V-by-One® HS technology are expected to transmit pixel data and control the camera modules more stably under noisy application environment.

THine plans to expand the application markets of V-by-One® HS in order to deliver values of higher speed, lower space, lower costs, more noise tolerance, and long-distance transmission for customers of DTV markets and many visual data related markets.

��Price and availability
Sample price of THCV233 and THCV234 is 1,500 yen. THine plans to start volume production in the second quarter in 2010.

��Key benefits of THCV233 and THCV234
Main link
- Conversion between LVDS and V-by-One® HS
- Color depth selectable: 32bit/24bit
- LVDS clock frequency: Max. 100MHz
- V-by-One® HS data rate: Max. 3.4Gbps
- Pre-emphasis and equalizer
- On chip data error test mode
Sub-link
- Reciprocal control between THCV233 and THCV234 through sub-links
- 2-wire serial interface: Max. 400Kbps
- GPIO��THCV233: 4, THCV234: 5
- Small package: 7mm×7mm QFN 48 pins
- Supporting two power sources of 1.8V and 3.3V

��Images of THCV233 and THCV234

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2009.10.26

2009-10-25T23:36:48Z

THine unveils high-speed SerDes interface technologies for full HD televisions Tokyo (October 26, 2009) – THine Electronics, Inc. (JASDAQ:6769), the global leader in high-speed serial interface and provider of mixed-signal LSI for flat panel displays, announced today that THine unveils industry’s first 6Gbps SerDes interface technologies for full HD televisions and visual related markets. This new V-by-One® technology can reduce internal interface cables of full HD televisions to just one pair.

Image of V-by-One® Application for full HD television and contribution of cable reduction

Current full HD television sets generally have twelve LVDS cables between picture engines and display panels, connecting by 0.75Gbps per cable. THine has developed V-by-One® technologies for television markets and offers high speed solutions with lower costs and EMI for long distance since 2006. The new 6Gbps technologies achieve eight times faster performance and can innovate internal interface systems of full HD televisions. THine plans to launch new products with new V-by-One® technologies in two years. Related part counts can be reduced by about 20% and total system costs are expected to decrease drastically.

In addition, by transmitting both pixel data and clock signals through the same pair cable utilizing Clock Data Recovery (CDR) technology, new V-by-One® technologies drastically improves the timing skew between signals on the different pair cables and achieves higher picture quality and lower EMI. As a result of these innovations, THine has achieved the one pair performance for full HD televisions that is expected to decrease costs of cables, lowering EMI, and solving skew issues.

Effects on lowering energy consumption are also expected since this new V-by-One® technologies enables to simplify circuit structure.

Innovation Trend on Internal Interface of Full HD Television

THine will deliver new values of interface technologies, corresponding to the customers’ request for lowering total costs, higher picture qualities, and thinner solutions with space saving technologies since worldwide trends of terminating analog broadcasting require these features that new V-by-One® technologies can contribute significantly.

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2009.10.19

2009-10-19T07:36:35Z

THine releases new products of V-by-One® HS to expand line-ups for DTVs ]]> Tokyo (October 19, 2009) – THine Electronics, Inc. (JASDAQ:6769), the global leader in high-speed serial interface and provider of mixed-signal LSI for flat panel displays, announced today that THine releases new products of its high-speed serial interface of THCV217 and THCV218 as families of V-by-One® HS that expand line-ups for digital televisions.

V-by-One® HS has been developed to offer capabilities for television markets that are requiring ever-higher frame rates and higher resolutions with lower costs and EMI. THine’s high-speed technology reduces number of cables to one sixth of current LVDS interface cables and enables to decrease costs of cables as well as EMI, solving skew issues fundamentally to improve picture quality.

THCV217 and THCV218 is a chipset that converts pixel data between V-by-One® HS and TTL/CMOS. This chipset expands customers’ options adopting V-by-One® HS with high-speed of 3.4Gbps in addition to the current chipset of THCV215 and THCV216 that converts data between V-by-One® HS and LVDS for high resolution digital televisions and visual systems such as projectors.

Furthermore, THine has already entered into license agreements of V-by-One® HS with twelve partners, negotiating with a few potential partners, and expands partners of V-by-One® HS continuously. THine plans to expand the application markets of V-by-One® HS and partners, conducting research and developments, expanding product line-ups, promoting licensing V-by-One® HS to DTV markets and many visual data related markets in order to deliver values of higher speed, lower space, and lower costs.

��Price and availability Sample price of THCV217 and THCV218 is 1,500 yen. THine plans to start volume production in the fourth quarter in 2009.

��Key benefits of THCV217 and THCV218

��Maximum serial data rate��3.4Gbps

��Package: TFBGA105 (THCV217), TFBGA145 (THCV218)

��CORE 1.8V, CMOS IO 3.3V

��Color depth selectable: 32bit/24bit

��AC Coupling for high-speed lines

��CDR requires no external frequency reference

��CMOS IO frequency

Product	Link	CMOS IO Frequency
THCV217	Single-in/Single-out	20MHz to 85MHz
	Dual-in/Dual-out	20MHz to 85MHz
	Single-in/Dual-out	40MHz to 170MHz
THCV218	Single-in/Single-out	20MHz to 85MHz
	Dual-in/Dual-out	20MHz to 85MHz
	Dual-in/Single-out	40MHz to 170MHz

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2009.09.11

2009-09-11T04:47:20Z

Three connector leaders start shipping products spportingV-by-One^®HS ]]> Tokyo (September 11, 2009) – THine Electronics, Inc. (JASDAQ:6769), the global leader in high-speed serial interface and provider of mixed-signal LSI for flat panel displays, announced today that three connector leaders, Hirose Electric Co., Ltd., Japan Aviation Electronics Industry, Ltd., and Tyco Electronics AMP K.K., start or schedule to start shipping products supporting V-by-One® HS features.

V-by-One® HS is an advanced high speed interface technology developed by THine to deliver value for audio-visual markets and image processing markets. Connector products are required higher performance features according as audio-visual equipments and image processing equipments are developing advanced features and replace LVDS interface to V-by-One® HS.

The three connector plan to expand their product line-ups supporting V-by-One® HS specification features for various markets that are expected to adopt V-by-One® HS technology.

As of September 11th, the three connector makers support V-by-One® HS as follows:

Hirose Electric is shipping FX16 series in volume production:

Hirose Electric’s FX16 series is a next generation high speed connector supporting interface of 5.7 Gbps transmission. This series support various connecting needs for customers by plentiful varieties of receptacle-plug contacts, pin numbers, and supporting cables.

Japan Aviation Electronics Industry is shipping FI-R and JF04 series volume production:

Japan Aviation Electronics Industry’s FI-R and JF04 series is a connector harness for advanced high speed transmissions with wide adoption in LVDS interfaces. This series is highly relied with its total solution, including FFC cables, using its know-hows accumulated in the markets.

Tyco Electronics AMP is scheduling to start shipping engineering samples of M:i-1 series in October 2009:

Tyco Electronics AMP’s M:i-1 series is developed for next generation high speed interface. M:i-1 is an epoch-making product that enables not only to connect various types of cables but also to assemble with extremely low cost cables.

About Hirose Electric Co., Ltd.

Hirose Electric Co., Ltd. (HIROSE) has contributed to develop electronic industries as a connector specific maker for more than seventy years. HIROSE will contribute customers’ growth through its innovative product development, applying HIROSE’s original technology of radio frequency, ultra precision manufacturing process, etc.

Japan Aviation Electronics Industry, Ltd.

Japan Aviation Electronics Industry, Ltd. (JAE) is one of the global top ten electronic connector makers. In addition, JAE makes aerospace products and input devices, and so on. Under its slogan of “Technology to Inspire Innovation,” JAE continues to supply innovative and creative technology and products continuously through partnering activities with world-wide electronics related customers, adding values together.

Tyco Electronics AMP K.K.

Tyco Electronics AMP K.K. is a leading company in globally and rapidly growing electronic industries. It endeavors to deliver advantages for world-wide customers continuously by all the corporate teams of seven hundred engineers, sales forces, production teams, and customer service teams in various markets of automotives, digital consumer equipments, aerospace products, computers, industrial equipments, medical equipment, renewal energy, etc.

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THine Electronics, Inc.

Phone: +81-3-3270-0666

Fax: +81-3-3270-0688

E-mail: ir@thine.co.jp (About Investors Relations) / sales@thine.co.jp (About Products)

URL: http://www.thine.co.jp/

2009.07.21

2009-07-21T05:12:35Z

Astrodesign releases Video Signal Generator supporting V-by-One^®HS

]]> Tokyo (July 21, 2009) – THine Electronics, Inc. (JASDAQ:6769), the global leader in high-speed serial interface and provider of mixed-signal LSI for flat panel displays, announced today that Astrodesign released the video signal generator supporting V-by-One^®HS.

V-by-One^®HS is next generation high speed interface solution which THine Electronics, Inc. offers to television display market for high resolution display with low EMI and cost cutting including the reduce of the cable and the connector.

Astrodesign, Inc. was the original developer of, and leading supplier for Programmable Signal Generator since 1979. With the cooperation with THine Electronics, Astrodesign released V-by-One^®HS supporting Signal Generator for television receiver and display manufacturer application.

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Video Signal Generator VG-870B / V-by-One^®HS output module VM-1825

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VG-870B is video signal generator with high speed drawing engine with RGB each 16 bit and multi interface slot.
The device is settable to 3 units of interface module from the 11 alternatives, such as V-by-One^®HS, LVDS, HDMI etc.
The maximum dot clock frequency is 340MHz, maximum color depth is RGB 16 bit each.

By adjusting 4K2K supporting interface module which has a buffer, it will be able to output 4096X2160 (120Hz) and 1920X1080(240Hz)

The specification V-by-One^®HS module is as below.
��Supporting 8-Lane transmission (by setting 2 units able to support 16Lane transmission)
��Maximum Dot Clock frequency : 680MH��by setting 2 units able to support Maximum 1.3GHz)
��Maximum color depth : RGB each 10 bit
��Maximum resolution : 4096x4096 dot
��Output connector : 26 pin MDR connector X 2
��Able to select several dividing format for 4K2K@60Hz(120Hz) and FHD@240Hz outpu��
��Able to control HTPDN and LOCKN signal

��Astrodesign's VG-870B
VideoSignal Generator withV-by-One^®HSmodule

��Availability
Video Signal Generator VG-870B andV-by-One^®HSoutput module VM-1825 is now available from Astrodesign atwww.astrodesign.co.jp

About Astrodesign, Inc.

Astrodesign Incorporated is fabless manufacturer of equipment such as Test & Measurement products, Broadcasting products and Commercial video related products using high speed signal processing technology. Astrodesign's headquarter and main sales office is located in Tokyo, Japan, with an additional sales office in Osaka. The company’s R&D center is located in Tokyo, Matsuyama and Tottori. For more information for Astrodesign will be available atwww.astrodesign.co.jp

About THine Electronics, Inc.

THine Electronics Incorporated is a fables maker that provides innovative mixed signal LSI and analog technologies such asV-by-One^®HS,LVDS, other high speed data signaling, timing controller, Analog-to-Digital Converter (ADC), Image Signal Processor (ISP), RF and power management in growing niche markets for our customers’ solutions, targeting its strategic markets in flat TVs, LCD monitors, projectors, projection televisions, mobile phones, and automotive markets.

THine is headquartered in Tokyo, Japan, and has design centers in Kyoto and Kyushu, Japan, as well as subsidiaries in Tokyo and Taipei, Taiwan. THine Electronics is listed on the JASDAQ under the security code of 6769. More information is located on the World Wide Web atwww.thine.co.jp.

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2009.07.07

2009-07-07T05:57:05Z

THine and Altera enter partnership to support V-by-One® HS Interface ]]> Tokyo (Julyne 7, 2009) – THine Electronics, Inc. (JASDAQ:6769), the global leader in high-speed serial interface and provider of mixed-signal LSI for flat panel displays, announced today that it is turning to FPGAs to support its high-speed serial interface, V-by-One HS. Altera Corporation has partnered with THine to offer a V-by-One IP reference design on Altera's FPGAs which include family support from Altera's Arria® and Stratix® series devices.

Developed for the television display market, THine's V-by-One® HS offers higher resolution and clearer picture quality while lowering the total cost of internal cables and connectors. The advanced high-speed interface is essential for applications with high-speed data transmission such as next generation flat panel displays and multi-functional printers.

“The demand for high definition and better quality images has prompted television set makers and display panel vendors to look at advanced interface technology to meet the growing need," said Mr. John Sakamoto, senior director of application business units at Altera. "Adding V-by-One® HS capability in our FPGA addresses this need and enables our customers to begin V-by-One® development today.”

“Since 2008, THine's V-by-One® HS technical specification has been widely accepted by the global markets," said Mr. Masahiro Kato, senior vice president, THine Electronics, Inc. "Television makers and panel vendors will benefit from our partnership with Altera by accelerating their time to market and differentiating their designs with Altera’s FPGAs and THine's V-by-One® HS.”

��Key benefits of V-by-One® HS

��High transmission quality with high performance equalizer in noisy conditions
��High data transmission quality solving cable skew problems with high speed Serializer/Deserializer using Clock Data Recovery technology
��Lower EMI with clock embedded transmission, no reference clock at receiver
��Reduction of total cost and board space by optimizing cables and connectors
��Seamless transition to V-by-One® HS minimizing change of device input/output and peripheral design
��Lower energy consumption with variable transmission speed: 600 Mbps to 3.75 Gbps
��Ease of use, Plug & Play
��Open standard disclosed by THine

��Availability
The V-by-One IP reference design is available today through Altera's partner, Bitec.

About THine Electronics, Inc.
THine Electronics Incorporated is a fables maker that provides innovative mixed signal LSI and analog technologies such as LVDS, other high speed data signaling, timing controller, Analog-to-Digital Converter (ADC), Image Signal Processor (ISP), RF and power management in growing niche markets for our customers’ solutions, targeting its strategic markets in flat TVs, LCD monitors, projectors, projection televisions, mobile phones, and automotive markets. THine is headquartered in Tokyo, Japan, and has design centers in Kyoto and Kyushu, Japan, as well as subsidiaries in Tokyo and Taipei, Taiwan. THine Electronics is traded on the JASDAQ under the security code of 6769. More information is located on the World Wide Web at www.thine.co.jp.

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2008.11.05

2008-11-05T01:01:32Z

THine and Winbond agree to transfer Winbond's ISP Business to THine TOKYO (November 5, 2008) -- THine Electronics, Inc. (JASDAQ: 6769, “THine”) and Winbond Electronics Corp. (Taiwan Stock Exchange: 2344, “Winbond”) announced that the two companies agreed to transferWinbond’s Image Signal Processor (ISP) Business to THine.

Winbond’s ISP products are specially designed to meet the increasing needs of high-end camera and mobile phones. Incorporated with a high-quality ISP engine, it works with advanced CMOS sensors of mainly 3 mega pixels to 5 mega pixels and auto focus actuators to deliver 3G-capable performance for smart phones or high-end feature phones. Its revenue of ISP business in fiscal year 2007 was NT$323 million. Winbond will transfer ISP Business and accelerate to reinforce its operating efficiency, following to the strategic carve-out of Nuvoton Technology Corp. on July 1st, 2008.
THine will acquire the ISP team with technological advantages and achieve synergy effects with THine’s competitive edge of advanced interface technologies such as V-by-One®HS in the growing markets of security cameras, automotive camera systems, amusement machines as well as cell phone handsets and mobile gadgets with camera system in order to deliver new value added for image processing solution.

Winbond will transfer assets including Winbond’s intellectual property rights and ISP related assets in fiscal year 2008, establishing a new company to transfer to THine.

About THine Electronics, Inc.

THine Electronics Incorporated is a fabless maker that provides innovative mixed signal LSI and analog technologies such as LVDS, advanced high-speed interface such as V-by-One®HS, timing controllers, high-speed 10 bit analog-to-digital converters, RF-IC and power management IC in growing niche markets for our customers’ solutions, targeting its strategic markets in high definition televisions, LCD monitors, mobile handsets, and automotive markets. THine also operates an electronics-focused venture capital fund, E-nova. THine is headquartered in Tokyo, Japan, and has design centers in Kyoto and Kyushu, Japan, as well as a marketing subsidiary in Taipei, Taiwan. THine Electronics is listed on the JASDAQ under the security code of 6769. For additional information, please visit the web site at http://www.thine.co.jp.

About Winbond Electronics Corp.

Winbond Electronics Corp. was founded in 1987 in Hsinchu Science Park, Taiwan and has been publicly traded on the Taiwan Stock Exchange since 1995. In October 2008, the headquarters is relocated to Central Taiwan Science Park where newly built the 300mm wafer fab. The site is mainly focusing on research & development and production, of which the process technology covers from 90nm~65nm.

Winbond focuses on the Memory Products design and manufacturing with three main business groups—DRAM Product Business Group, Memory IC Manufacturing Business Group, and Flash Memory IC Business Group. To maintain its long-term relationships with its customers and strengthen regional supports, Winbond has set up subsidiaries in the USA, Japan, and Hong Kong. For more information, please visit: http://www.winbond.com

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2008.08.07

2008-08-07T05:31:46Z

Samsung selects THine’s V-by-One®HS as the next generation interface for high-end LCD panels ]]> Tokyo (August 7, 2008) – THine Electronics, Inc. (JASDAQ:6769), the global leader in high-speed serial interface and provider of mixed-signal LSI for flat panel displays, announced today that Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd., LCD Business has selected THine’s high-speed serial interface, V-by-One®HS, as the next generation interface for high-end LCD panels from 2009.

V-by-One®HS has been developed to offer capabilities for television markets that are requiring ever-higher frame rates and higher resolutions such as ultra high definition (UD) display panels with 4K x 2K (3840 x 2160) pixels. For example, while UD panels require 96 cable pairs using the current interface, V-by-One®HS uses only 18 pairs. In addition, THine’s unique variable speed technology from 600 Mbps to 3.75 Gbps effectively meets the requirements of various different pixel rates. THine’s original equalizer technology achieves high video signal quality and total cost reduction by enabling use of lower cost cables/connectors and reducing components needed for control of EMI. THine has disclosed its V-by-One®HS technology as an open standard from this year for wide use in the television markets.

“Samsung Electronics Co. Ltd. is the world leader in the LCD panel market,” says Dr. Sang Soo Kim, Samsung Fellow and Executive Vice President of Samsung’s LCD Business. “We will maintain our cutting-edge LCD panel leadership at the high end of the market, delivering extreme performance with THine’s V-by-One®HS technology. Samsung will take exceptional advantage of cost savings and high picture quality by adopting V-by-One®HS interface as the next generation interface technology for high-end panels.”

“THine’s V-by-One®HS is suitable for innovative products such as Samsung’s LCD panels,” says Masahiro Kato, Senior Vice President of Sales and Marketing, THine Electronics, Inc., “THine will support Samsung and television set makers using V-by-One®HS technology.”

��Key benefits of V-by-One®HS
��High transmission quality with high performance equalizer in noisy conditions
��High data transmission quality solving cable skew problems with high speed Seriarizer/Deserializer using Clock Data Recovery technology
��Lower EMI with clock embedded transmission, no reference clock at receiver
��Reduction of total cost and board space by optimizing cables and connectors
��Seamless transition to V-by-One® HS minimizing change of device input/output and peripheral design
��Open standard disclosed by THine
��Lower energy consumption with variable transmission speed: 600 Mbps to 3.75 Gbps
��Ease of use, Plug & Play

About THine Electronics
THine Electronics, Inc. is a fabless maker that provides innovative mixed signal LSI and analog technologies such as LVDS, other high speed data signaling, timing controller, ADC, RF and power management in growing niche markets for our customers’ solutions, targeting its strategic markets in flat TVs (PDP and LCD televisions), LCD monitors, projectors, projection televisions, wireless base stations, and automotive markets. THine is headquartered in Tokyo, Japan, and has design centers in Kyoto and Kyushu, Japan, as well as a marketing subsidiary in Taipei, Taiwan. THine Electronics is listed on the JASDAQ under the security code of 6769. For more information, please visit our website at www. thine.co.jp.

About Samsung Electronics
Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd. is a global leader in semiconductor, telecommunication, digital media and digital convergence technologies with 2007 consolidated sales of US$103.4 billion. Employing approximately 150,000 people in 134 offices in 62 countries, the company consists of four main business units: Digital Media Business, LCD Business, Semiconductor Business, and Telecommunication Business. Recognized as one of the fastest growing global brands, Samsung Electronics is a leading producer of digital TVs, memory chips, mobile phones and TFT-LCDs. For more information, please visitwww.samsung.com.

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2008.08.07

2008-08-07T05:15:52Z

THine releases a new LVDS repeater product for full HD televisions and multi-functional printers TOKYO (August 7, 2008) �� THine Electronics, Inc. (JASDAQ:6769), the global leader in LDVS(*1) and other mixed-signal LSI for flat panel displays, unveiled today, a new LVDS repeater product, THC63LVD1027, for full HD televisions and multi-functional printers. THine has already started volume production since July 2008.

The LVDS repeater product is developed to expand options to select internal interface of full HD televisions and multi-functional printers (MFP) and improve customer products’ pixel quality.

Television set makers can use the LVDS repeater between picture engine LSI and television panels. THC63LVD1027 has a remarkable feature to sharpen data and clock signal pattern from picture engines of full HD televisions when the signal patterns are inferior to the signal patterns with THine’s LVDS transmitters. This feature can be achieved by the wide LVDS input skew margin of ±480 pico-seconds at 75MHz. Multi-functional printers can use THC63LVD1027 to avoid losses of data signal quality when longer cables are required by constraints of internal wiring spaces.

��Key features of THC63LVD1027
��Up to 85MHz 10bit dual channel LVDS Receiver
��Up to 85MHz 10bit dual channel LVDS Transmitter
��Wide LVDS input skew margin: ±480 ps at 75MHz
��Reduced swing LVDS output mode supported to suppress the system EMI(*2)
��Various line rate conversion mode supported
   Dual link input / Dual link output [clkout = 1 x clkin]
   Single link input / Dual link output [clkout = 1/2 x clkin]
   Dual link input / Single link output [clkout = 2 x clkin]
��Distribution (signal duplication) mode supported
��Power down mode supported
��3.3 V single voltage power supply
��No external components required for PLLs(*3)
��64pin TSSOP with Exposed PAD (0.5mm lead pitch)
��Higher performance to meet the requirements of Spread Spectrum
(*1) LVDS: Low Voltage Differential Signaling
(*2) EMI: Electro Magnetic Interference
(*3) PLL: Phase-Locked Loop

About THine Electronics
THine Electronics Incorporated is a fabless maker that provides innovative mixed signal LSI and analog technologies such as LVDS, other high speed data signaling, timing controller, ADC, RF and power management in growing niche markets for our customers’ solutions, targeting its strategic markets in flat TVs (PDP and LCD televisions), LCD monitors, projectors, projection televisions, mobile phones, and automotive markets. THine is headquartered in Tokyo, Japan, and has design centers in Kyoto and Kyushu, Japan, as well as a marketing subsidiary in Taipei, Taiwan. THine Electronics is listed on the JASDAQ under the security code of 6769. For more information please visit the website athttp://www.thine.co.jp/.

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2008.05.26

2008-05-26T08:17:24Z

THine discloses the full details of the technical specification of V-by-One®HS ]]> TOKYO (May 26, 2007) -- THine Electronics, Inc. (JASDAQ:6769), the global leader in LDVS(*1) and other mixed-signal LSI for flat panel displays, discloses the full details of the technical specification of V-by-One®HS.

V-by-One® HS is developed to offer solutions for rapidly innovating FPD markets. By transmitting both data and clock signals through the same pair cable with Clock Data Recovery (CDR) technology as well as THine’s SerDes technologies, V-by-One®HS achieves high-speed data transmission of 3.75 Gbps and drastically improves the timing skew between signals on the different pair cables, achieves higher picture quality, lower electro-magnetic interference (EMI), and reduces power consumption, and total costs including cables or connectors.
These features of V-by-One® HS result in costs and developing period to solve the issues with LVDS. For example, full HD panels with double frame rate of 120 Hz require only 6 pairs with V-by-One®HS technology, while LVDS uses 24 pairs for the same data transmission. As results, V-by-One®HS is expected to reduce related costs, including cables and connectors, at most $15. Furthermore, ultra-high-definition (UD) display panels for high-resolution television of 4K x 2K (3840 x 2160) resolution requires four times more information than usual full HD panel with LVDS and increase the cost of cables and connectors, enabling system designers to reduce developing period and time-to-market. While 4K x 2K panels requires 96 pairs of cables with 30 bit LVDS interface or 80 pairs with 24 bit LVDS, V-by-One® HS uses only 18 pairs, less than 24 pairs for usual full HD panels with LVDS. As results, V-by-One®HS is expected to reduce related costs, including cables and connectors, at most $40.

Availability of the technical specification

The technical specification of V-by-One®HS is available today. THine discloses it to respond customers’ requests to achieve higher speed and improve quality of video signal transmission by wide availability of V-by-One®HS toward de-facto standard.
Simple version: The simple version of the technical specification of V-by-One®HS can be downloaded from THine’s web page. Full detail version: The full detail version can be sent to customers from THine’s sales team by sending an email tosales@thine.co.jpwith sender’s information of the name, title, organization, company name, address and phone number.

In addition to disclosing the technical specification, THine plans to license related IPs (intellectual properties) for adopting customers as requested from the second quarter 2008 and also to start volume production of the chip set of THCV215 and THCV216 with V-by-One®HS technology in the fourth quarter 2008.

��Key benefits of V-by-One®HS
��High transmission quality with high performance equalizer in noisy conditions
��High data transmission quality solving cable skew problems with high speed SerDes(*2) using CDR technology
��Lower EMI with clock embedded transmission, no reference clock at receiver
��Reduction of total cost and board space by optimizing cables and connectors
��Seamless transition from LVDS to V-by-One® HS minimizing change of device input/output and peripheral design
��Lower energy consumption with variable transmission speed: 600 Mbps to 3.75 Gbps
��Ease of use by AC coupling

(*1) LVDS�� Low Voltage Differential Signaling
(*2)SerDes�� Serializer/Deserializer

About THine Electronics
THine Electronics Incorporated is a fables maker that provides innovative mixed signal LSI and analog technologies such as LVDS, other high speed data signaling, timing controller, ADC, RF and power management in growing niche markets for our customers’ solutions, targeting its strategic markets in flat TVs (PDP and LCD televisions), LCD monitors, projectors, projection televisions, mobile phones, and automotive markets.
THine is headquartered in Tokyo, Japan, and has design centers in Kyoto and Kyushu, Japan, as well as a marketing subsidiary in Taipei, Taiwan.
THine Electronics is traded on the JASDAQ under the security code of 6769. More information is located on the World Wide Web atwww.thine.co.jp.

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2007.12.25

2007-12-25T06:07:11Z

THine announces availability of the technical specification of V-by-One®HS ]]> THine announces availability of the technical specification of V-by-One®HS

TOKYO (December 25, 2007)-- THine Electronics, Inc. (JASDAQ:6769), the global leader in LDVS(*1) and other mixed-signal LSI for flat panel displays, announced today, to open the technical specification of "V-by-One®HS", the next generation video signal SerDes(*2) interface, in order to make it a de-facto standard in the industry. In response to growing market needs such as higher picture quality, higher pixel rate and color depth, lower energy consumption, THine Electronics will help the video interface users to more easily adapt "V-by-One®HS" by opening the technical specification step by step and getting recognition of a de-facto standard. The technical specification of "V-by-One®HS" is on THine's WEB site as follows and the fully precise version will be disclosed in April 2008.

Download the technical specification of V-by-One®HS

The new interface "V-by-One®HS" is employing high speed 3.75Gbps serial data rate transmission technology and greatly beneficial for improving video signal transmission quality, reducing EMI, lowering power consumption, and cutting total system cost. These benefits are realized by THine's technical breakthrough of the wide range variable transmission speed technology, which covers from 600Mbps to 3.75Gbps, and the data sampling technology without crystal components as reference clocks.

By transmitting both data and clock signals through the same pair cable utilizing CDR (Clock Data Recovery) technology, "V-by-One®HS" drastically improves the timing skew between signals on the different pair cables and achieves higher picture quality and lower EMI.. THine's unique variable speed technology effectively contributes to meeting various TV pixel rate and reducing power consumption. The original equalizer technology achieves high video signal quality and total cost down by enabling use of lower cost cables/connectors and reducing components for EMI reduction.

By becoming a de-facto standard of the industry, The "V-by-One®HS" will be a beneficial for users as a standard solution to improve video signal transmission quality for higher pixel rate and color depth, reduces EMI, lowers power consumption, and cuts total system cost for high-end video signal transmission needs such as 120Hz frame rate full high vision TV.

In addition, THine plans to license related IPs (intellectual properties) for adopting customers as requested, starting volume production of the chip set of THCV215 and THCV216 with V-by-One®HS technology in the second quarter 2008.

��Key benefits of "V-by-One®HS"
��High data transmission quality solving cable skew problems with high speed SerDes using Clock Data Recovery technology
��High transmission quality with high performance equalizer in noisy conditions
��Lower EMI with clock embedded transmission, No reference clock at receiver
��Total cost and space reduction by reducing number of cables and connectors
��Seamless transition from LVDS to V-by-One®HS minimizing change of device input/output and peripheral design
��Lower energy consumption with variable transmission speed
��Ease of use,��Plug & Play

(*1) LVDS�� Low Voltage Differential Signaling
(*2)Serializer Deserializer

About THine Electronics
THine Electronics Incorporated is a fables maker that provides innovative mixed signal LSI and analog technologies such as LVDS, other high speed data signaling, timing controller, ADC, RF and power management in growing niche markets for our customers' solutions, targeting its strategic markets in flat TVs (PDP and LCD televisions), LCD monitors, projectors, projection televisions, mobile phones, and automotive markets.
THine is headquartered in Tokyo, Japan, and has design centers in Kyoto and Kyushu, Japan, as well as a marketing subsidiary in Taipei, Taiwan.
THine Electronics is traded on the JASDAQ under the security code of 6769. More information is located on the World Wide Web at www.thine.co.jp.

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