Thursday, Jan. 23, 9:01 am ET
Vimicro's mobile chip series became the focal point at China's first ever "Mobile Communication Products and Applications Summit"

Beijing, China, Jan. 23 - Today, China's first ever summit on mobile communication products and applications was held in Beijing, sponsored by China's Ministry of Information Technology (MII). At the focus is Vimicro's mobile chip series, including the mobile imaging processing chip, which allows pictures taken at anywhere and sent to anyone at anytime via MMS, and the MIDI chip, which replaces monotonic ring bells with full varieties of music clips. MII intends to take this opportunity to further promote the collaboration between Vimicro and other industry bellwethers like, China Mobile, China Unicom, Bird, TCL, etc., to establish China's own mobile communication supply chain and enable the next generation of China's cell phones be built upon its own IPs for the first time ever. Earlier, Samsung has adopted these chips in its own mobile phone series provided to Sprint PCS, one of the largest telecom operators in US.

About Vimicro

Vimicro is a technology start-up providing cutting-edge digital imaging and communication technology to worldwide telecommunication, PC, mobile, and consumer markets. Vimicro has strategic relationship with Microsoft, China Telecom, China Netcom, China Mobile, China Unicom, and Foxconn Group, and to address a large market in Internet and mobile multimedia communication. Supported by Chinese Ministry of Information Industry, Vimicro is now helping to standardize Chinese Internet and mobile multimedia communication through its VXP platform.

Vimicro has its headquarter in Beijing, and subsidiary in Shanghai, Shenzhen, and Silicon Valley.

Please visit www.vimicro.com for more information.