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RMI Alchemy Au1250 Media Processor Selected by Geotel for Latest Navigation-Based Portable Media Player

XROAD (Ultra Navi) MO1000 from Industry Leading Navigation Supplier Incorporates RMI’s Newly Announced Power-Optimized 700MHz Processor

Las Vegas, NV, January 7, 2008 - RMI Corporation™, a leading supplier of Processor Based Solutions for networking, communications and consumer applications, today announced that Geotel, a worldwide navigation leader, has selected the RMI Alchemy™ Au1250™ media processor for its XROAD MO1000 navigation-based portable media player. The Geotel XROAD MO1000 is a powerful multi-function portable media player utilizing the newly announced 700Mhz Alchemy Au1250™ processor from RMI.

The XROAD MO1000 is based on the WinCE 5.0 operating system and offers a 7-inch digital TFT-LCD touch screen combined with a 30GB hard drive to bring navigation, audio and video playback, photo viewing capabilities and MobileTV to the fast-growing PMP/Navigation market where Geotel maintains a strong global market share. The MO1000 utilizes the RMI Alchemy Au1250™ operating at 700MHz which provides Geotel a highly integrated solution delivering the most Available MIPS in the industry.

“We are pleased with the performance and low power that Alchemy brings and extend our relationship with RMI to our latest product announcement, the XROAD MO1000,” said BH Lee, chief executive officer, Geotel. “The integration levels of the Au1250 combined with the high performance and power-optimization provided by the new 700MHz processor is unmatched for the capabilities we are offering the market.”

The Alchemy Au1250™ Processor is in full-production and offers a variety of performance levels ranging from 400MHz to 700MHz, depending on the application. The new 700MHz offering, an increase of 17% in performance, allows customers and developers increased capabilities including faster route calculation speeds for navigation devices as well as increased browser speed for Wi-Fi enabled products.

“It has been exciting working with Geotel over the last couple of years. Their expertise and vision have been a great combination and have led to much success in their target markets,” said Mike Wodopian, vice president and general manager, Alchemy Solutions at RMI. “We are very happy that they have continued to rely upon us for Processor Solution and we feel that our relationship will extend well into the future as new connectivity capabilities become available.”

RMI’s Alchemy Solutions include the Au1200 Processor Family and the Au1550 Processor Family to meet the needs of consumer and communications applications by offering a high performance, low-power processor capable of delivering a rich multi-media experience to end users under a 1/2 watt (450mW). The Au1200 Processor Family consists of the Au1200, the Au1210 and the Au1250, media processors targeted for full-featured Portable Media Players (PMP), Personal Navigation Devices (PND) and MobileTV. The Au1550 Processor Family offers network processing capabilities with a versatile high-performance, low-power, highly integrated network System-on-a-Chip (SoC) designed for wired and wireless applications. The RMI Alchemy product line provides system designers an easy-to-use, simple solution to create full-featured consumer and communications solutions with greatly reduced design cycle times.

About RMI Corporation
RMI® is a fabless semiconductor company providing highly integrated, feature-rich products ranging from power-optimized System-on-a-Chip (SoC) solutions to High-Performance Processors for the Digital Consumer, Wireless, Networking and Security markets. RMI offers the most advanced and the most complete MIPS-Based® processing solutions with both 32/64-bit architectures supporting frequencies from 300MHz to 1.2 GHz. RMI is headquartered in Cupertino, CA with branch and subsidiary operations in Texas, United Kingdom, India, Korea, Japan, Taiwan and China. More information about RMI can be found on the company’s website at http://www.RMI-Corp.com.

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