Arphic is glad to announce good news to the public—the successful combination of Arphic iFont® embedded font solutions and Mentor Graphics Nucleus® Platform Media Player, PMP.  This PMP is a multimedia application reference design which enables the rapid development of differentiated multimedia devices such as portable media players (PMP), personal navigation devices (PND), mobile internet devices (MID), mobile phones, digital photo frames and in-car entertainment systems.  Based on the Nucleus Operating System (OS), a powerful user interface (UI) engine, and iFont® application programming interface (API), this customizable reference platform accelerates multimedia product development while minimizing memory footprint and development costs.

“In the fiercely competitive multimedia markets, device manufacturers must stay focused on innovation to differentiate their products,” said Neil Henderson, general manager, Embedded Systems Division, Mentor Graphics. “Responding to the maturing multimedia market needs, Mentor’s single-vendor reference platform enables developers to more quickly implement core functionality, giving them more time to focus on delivering innovative and compelling multimedia devices.”

Arphic's multilingual text layout engine and efficient font formats enable devices to support a broad range of complex languages and scripts with minimal overhead. 
“To meet diverse market needs, multimedia device manufacturers must be able to accommodate multilingual text requirements,” said Grace Yang, CEO of Arphic.  “Our technology enables Nucleus Platform Media Player customers to minimize the effort required to meet this need.” 

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About Mentor Graphics
Mentor Graphics Corporation (NASDAQ: MENT) is a world leader in electronic hardware and software design solutions, providing products, consulting services and award-winning support for the world’s most successful electronics and semiconductor companies.  Established in 1981, the company reported revenues over the last 12 months of about $850 million and employs approximately 4,500 people worldwide. Corporate headquarters are located at 8005 S.W. Boeckman Road, Wilsonville, Oregon 97070-7777. World Wide Web site: http://www.mentor.com/.

About Arphic
Arphic provides superior patented font technology, Mobile Font® and HiFont® compact, for information appliances and digital home. Arphic Layout Engine® is a program library mastering layout of written scripts worldwide, such as Hindi, Bengali, Arabic, Thai, etc. In general, Arphic is a leading developer of total font solutions and provider of global fonts in embedded systems. It is a corporate belief to develop more prominent font solutions to improve digital display in consumer and industrial electronic devices. For more information, visit www.arphic.com or email: service@arphic.com.tw