Syndiant’s Technology Featured in Philips PicoPix Pocket Projectors by Sagemcom

DALLAS--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Syndiant, a leader in high resolution microdisplays for pocket projectors, announces that its SYL2041 with patented all-digital smart panel VueG8™ technology was implemented in Philips PicoPix pocket projectors, which were recently unveiled at IFA 2010 in Berlin. This new range of three products has been created by Sagemcom, a French high-technology group which operates on an international scale and is Philips' licensee for this product category.

“We are very pleased with the strong interest and the positive feedback for our PicoPix pocket projector range at IFA”

The three Philips PicoPix projectors are:

Philips Notebook pocket projector PPX 1020, which offers up to 20 lumens of brightness, can be easily connected to a PC via USB port.

Philips Pocket projector PPX 1230 offers up to 30 lumens of brightness and can easily be connected to a wide range of handheld devices, such as digital cameras, mobile and smart phones, iPod/ iPad/ iPhone, etc.

Philips Pocket projector PPX 1430 offers up to 30 lumens of brightness, and in addition to easily connecting to a wide range of mobile devices includes an integrated MP4 player. This pocket projector can also be used as a standalone device which retrieves its content from the internal 2GB memory or one of various different types of memory cards.

“We are very pleased with the strong interest and the positive feedback for our PicoPix pocket projector range at IFA,” said Nicolas Denis, Vice President, Director of Consumer Terminals Department at Sagemcom. “The high resolution microdisplay panel from Syndiant is making a believer out of consumers who are looking for high quality images from their pocket projectors.”

“With Syndiant’s exceptional resolution, color saturation and low cost, we are confident that we are providing the market with the right price and performance to enable consumers to enjoy a mobile large screen viewing experience – and Philips’ PicoPix by Sagemcom is certainly an excellent example of this coming to market,” said Mark Harward, CEO of Syndiant.

About Sagemcom

As a French high-technology group, which operates on an international scale, Sagemcom is working to establish itself as one of the leading manufacturers of high-added-value communications terminals. It currently operates in the broadband communications, telecoms and energy and document management sectors, offering a variety of printing terminals for both the general public and professionals, digital TV decoders, broadband and residential terminals, M2M communications, energy and systems management, telecom partnerships and convergence.

With a turnover of nearly 1.2 billion Euros, Sagemcom employs some 6,000 people across five continents, with its head office located in Rueil-Malmaison. The company’s sustainable development policy comes into play as early as the product design stage, particularly with regard to all the industrial processes involved, from ecological design, in accordance with ISO standards, to reducing the energy consumption of its products, in the framework of a code of ethics by which all of the company’s suppliers are bound. Sagemcom also won both the 2009 and 2010 Service Client de l'Année (Customer Service of the Year) awards in the Telecommunications Products category. For further information please visit www.sagemcom.com.

The Philips brand and the Philips shield brand mark are registered trademarks of Koninklijke Philips Electronics N.V. and are used by Sagemcom under license from Koninklijke Philips Electronics N.V.

About Syndiant

Syndiant manufactures the world’s smallest and highest resolution light modulating chips used in pico projectors small enough to embed in a cell phone. Syndiant’s patented VueG8 technology provides a large screen experience in handheld electronics, such as smartphones, notebook computers, portable media players, video game consoles and cameras. The company is headquartered in Dallas, with offices in Taiwan and Hong Kong. For more information, visit www.syndiant.com.

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