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ARC: Enabling the Multimedia Revolution

ARC International (LSE: ARK) is fueling the multimedia revolution by enabling high quality multimedia content to be captured, shared, and played on a wide variety of consumer electronics devices.  ARC licenses award-winning consumer intellectual property (IP) in the form of multimedia subsystems and related technologies to semiconductor and OEM companies worldwide.  They enable customers to create differentiated silicon chips that deliver an enhanced multimedia experience to consumers.  Sonic Focus, an ARC International company, licenses award-winning audio enhancement software bringing the consumer closer to the original artist’s performance.

A History of Enabling Customer Success

ARC has more than 140 customers worldwide that collectively have taped-out hundreds of successful ARC-Based™ SoCs and ship more than 300 million chips annually.  ARC has the broadest portfolio of market ready multimedia solutions that come with a full suite of software and hardware development tools.  These are backed by a worldwide customer support team that is ready to ease the SoC development process 24 hours a day, 7 days a week. 

“We use ARC because it’s an industry standard and its low power profile.”		“We are pleased to standardize a key element of our technology strategy on ARC.”		“Our investment in ARC is a strategic decision for Fujitsu.”
“ARC’s technology enhances our competitive differentiation.”		“ARC’s technology has played a significant role in the success of our product.”		“A collaboration between industry leaders in media- oriented applications.”
“ARC presented a programmable solution to accommodate the evolution of standards.”		“ARC plays a significant role in our industry-leading sensor technology."		“We applaud ARC's leadership in low-power technology.”

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ARC’s Market Ready Multimedia Solutions

ARC’s award-winning multimedia subsystems provide customers with an integrated solution that scales from SD to HD, lowers development effort and risk, enables a high degree of SoC differentiation, and help future proof a design from changing standards.  

ARC® Media Subsystem Family

ARC Media is a family of complete audio and video solutions capable of playing back virtually any audio or video content on a wide range of consumer electronics devices.  Because it is “Sonic Focus Ready” the ARC Media family enhances the consumer listening experience by restoring the realism of the original performance. Learn more >>

ARC® Video Subsystem Family

The ARC Video family sets a new standard for video quality by employing a new technology that enables encoding and decoding of video streams at the lowest possible power. Learn more >>

ARC® Sound Subsystem Family

ARC Sound Subsystems deliver high quality audio fidelity using very low power budgets.  Newer members of the ARC Sound family support the award-winning Sonic Focus audio post-processing software and incorporate the ARC Energy PRO power management technology. Learn more >>

ARC Multimedia Subsystems Awards
GSPx "Product of the Year" Award		Portable Design "Editors Choice" Award
Cadence "Partner of the Year" Award 2006		Cadence "Partner of the Year" Award 2007

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Sonic Focus Audio Enhancement Software

Sonic Focus, an ARC International company, licenses award-winning audio enhancement software that restores clarity and fidelity of compressed audio, and creates surround and multi-channel sound from two-channel stereo input.  Learn more >> 

Adaptive Dynamics™

Sonic Focus Adaptive Dynamics software recreates the clarity and detail commonly lost in today’s music, movies, and TV shows.  It adds clarity to the entire audio spectrum, preserves original tonality of voice, and limits listener fatigue.  Learn more >> 

X-Matrix™

Sonic Focus X-Matrix software expands the soundstage while adding a virtual center channel to emphasize vocals or solo instruments.  The result is a full, rich, and natural surround-sound experience with increased vocal clarity.  Learn more >>

Extrapolator™

Sonic Focus Extrapolator software expands stereo source material to create a lifelike multi-channel environment.  No pre-encoding is required – Extrapolator works with music, movies, or games.  Learn more >>

Sonic Focus Awards
AnandTech “Editor’s Choice” Gold Award		Multiple Platinum Records
CES “Innovations” Award		Multiple Gold Records

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