Grandtech, Surplus and Winbond Provide Reference Designs with OMNIVISION's New, Low-Cost 1.3‑Megapixel CMOS CameraChip™
SUNNYVALE, CA — January 29, 2002 — OMNIVISION Technologies, Inc. (Nasdaq: OVTI), a market-leading independent supplier of CameraChip™ solutions for high-volume imaging applications, today announced broad support from digital signal processing (DSP) chip providers Grandtech, Sunplus and Winbond for its recently announced 1.3 mega-pixel CMOS CameraChip™. The CameraChip™ and the DSP are core components of a highly integrated digital camera design.
Grandtech is a developer, manufacturer and marketer of digital still camera and scanner integrated circuits (ICs). Sunplus is a developer, manufacturer and marketer of high-quality, high-added-value consumer IC products. Winbond is a developer, manufacturer and marketer of personal computer, telecommunications and consumer electronics products. Each has announced digital still camera reference designs that incorporate their respective DSP and OMNIVISION’s OV9620 1.3 mega-pixel CMOS CameraChip™. Reference designs help manufacturers integrate complementary technologies quickly, enabling them to more rapidly bring low-cost digital cameras to market. Grandtech is supporting the OV9620 with their GT8920 DSP reference design. Sunplus is supporting the OV9620 with their SPCA504A DSP reference design. Winbond is supporting the OV9620 with their W99682 DSP reference design.
“These reference designs are an important milestone for the success of our recently announced 1.3 mega-pixel CameraChip™,” said Raymond Wu, executive vice president at OMNIVISION. “The availability of these reference designs will help camera manufacturers more quickly develop and market low-cost digital cameras that can support standard 35mm quality prints.” 1.3 mega-pixel resolution is generally considered the level required for printing digital images. More pixels enable clearer and larger prints.
OMNIVISION’s OV9620 CameraChip™ outputs image data in raw RGB Bayer pattern format. The DSP processes the raw RGB data and performs a number of adjustments that optimize the image. In addition, the DSP generally provides a number of other control functions widely considered necessary for a highly integrated camera designs. Such control functions include file formatting and compression into JPEG or other file formats, TFT controls, mass storage interface and flash controls.
The OV9620 is a 1.3 mega-pixel CMOS CameraChip™ in a 48-pin package. Although data output is in raw RGB format, the chip integrates auto-white balance, auto-exposure, auto-gain control and performs correlated double sampling. As announced in November of this year, the current OEM price is $12.50 in volumes of 100,000 or greater, and the OV9620 is currently shipping in mass production volumes. Pricing and availability are subject to change.
For More Information
For more information on OMNIVISION’s OV9620 CameraChip™, please contact OMNIVISION via e-mail at sales@ovt.com or visit our Website at www.ovt.com.
For more information on DSP chips from Grandtech, Sunplus and Winbond that support the OV9620, please contact their respective offices listed below.
Grandtech: 886-3-535-6978 or email to grandsem@ms14.hinet.net
Sunplus Technology: 770-455-3264 or e-mail to Marketing@Sunplusdata.com
Winbond Electronics Corporation: 1-800-677-0769 or e-mail to info@winbond.com
About OMNIVISION
OMNIVISION Technologies, Inc. is an independent CameraChip™ solutions provider. Utilizing proprietary design technology for its highly integrated still-photo and video camera solutions for high-volume imaging applications, OMNIVISION integrates multiple image processing and capture functions into a single CameraChip™ design. With the addition of only a lens, the result is a low-cost CameraChip™ that consumes less power, has a greater environmental functioning range and has a smaller footprint than typical CMOS multi-chip image sensor solutions. OMNIVISION’s CameraChip™ solutions are in cell phones, personal digital assistants, automobiles and industrial machine vision applications, as well as surveillance and biometric security applications. OMNIVISION is based in Sunnyvale, California. For more information about the company, visit our Website at www.ovt.com.
OMNIVISION and CameraChip™ are trademarks of OMNIVISION Technologies, Inc. All other trade, product or service names referenced in this release may be trademarks or registered trademarks of their respective holders.
Certain statements in this press release, including statements regarding various DSP chip providers offering reference designs for their DSPs that include the OV9620; the ability of reference designs to allow manufacturers to more quickly manufacture and market low cost digital cameras and the components and performance of the OV9620 are forward-looking statements that are subject to risks and uncertainties. These risks and uncertainties, which could cause the forward-looking statements and the company’s results to differ materially, include, without limitation: the timely development, introduction and production of the OV9620; the quality, timely development, demand and customer acceptance for the products incorporating the OV9620; the success of the relationships between OMNIVISION and each of Sunplus, Grandtech and Winbond; the high level of complexity and integration of functions of OMNIVISION’s products increases the chances of quality problems and latent defects; continued adverse changes in general economic conditions in the U.S., and internationally, including adverse changes in the specific markets for OMNIVISION’s products and the other risks detailed from time to time in OMNIVISION’s Securities and Exchange Commission filings and reports, including, but not limited to, OMNIVISION’s annual report on form 10-K filed on July 23, 2001 and the interim quarterly reports. OMNIVISION disclaims any obligation to update information contained in any forward-looking statement.