TAIPEI, Taiwan - Embedded Systems Conference - Aug. 17 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- CEVA, Inc. (NASDAQ: CEVA)(LSE: CVA), the leading licensor of digital signal processor (DSP) cores, multimedia and storage platforms to the semiconductor industry, is increasing its commitment to the Taiwan market with increased local presence to meet a significant increase in demand for CEVA's industry-leading DSP cores and portfolio of multimedia solutions.

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CEVA is undertaking a number of strategic activities, including expanding the local support team in the region, exhibiting at key industry events, such as the Embedded Systems Conference, and initiating a technical seminar for embedded systems engineers.

Commenting on the company's recent success and developments in Taiwan, Gweltaz Toquet, vice president of Asia Sales for CEVA, said, "Taiwan is widely recognized as the leader in the development of multimedia and mobile communication devices utilizing leading-edge next generation technologies. CEVA's unique portfolio of DSPs and programmable multimedia solutions offers exactly the type of platforms and solutions these companies require to continue their advancements. This is reflected in the strong demand from Taiwan's semiconductor community for our products and services, and the expansion of our local sales and support team, combined with marketing initiatives such as the technical seminars, will serve to support this demand."

CEVA is participating in the Embedded Systems Conference in Taipei, Taiwan, August 17 and 18, offering attendees the opportunity to meet with CEVA representatives and interact with the latest demonstrations of CEVA's industry-leading multimedia, audio and VoIP solutions. The demonstrations on show include the industry's most comprehensive all-in-software portable multimedia platform CEVA Mobile-Media2000, demonstrating H.264 encode and decode up to D1 resolution, 30 frames-per-second. The CEVA stand is located at 2A06, floor 2/F. Further information about this event can be found on the CEVA website at https://www.ceva-ip.com/events .

In addition, CEVA has announced plans to host a series of free technical seminars for local embedded system engineers in Taiwan. These seminars will be hosted by members of CEVA's experienced engineering staff and will introduce the solutions, techniques and methodologies used to design CEVA-powered System-on-Chips deployed in many of the world's leading semiconductor and electronics companies.

The first of these technical seminars will take place Tuesday, October 17th from 09:00 to 17:00 at the Royal Hsinchu hotel in Hsinchu. Registration and further information about this seminar can be found on the CEVA website at https://www.ceva-ip.com/taiwantech .

About CEVA, Inc.

Headquartered in San Jose, Calif., CEVA is the leading licensor of digital signal processor (DSP) cores, multimedia and storage platforms to the semiconductor industry. CEVA licenses a family of programmable DSP cores, associated SoC system platforms and a portfolio of application platforms including multimedia, audio, Voice over Packet (VoP), Serial Attached SCSI (SAS) and Serial ATA (SATA). In 2005, CEVA's IP was shipped in over 130 million devices. For more information, visit https://www.ceva-ip.com/ .

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SOURCE: CEVA, Inc.

CONTACT: Richard Kingston of CEVA, Inc., +1-408-514-2976, or
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