CyberLink Continues to Leverage Intel’s Sophisticated CPU Computing Technologies to Optimize MediaShow 5.1, and MediaShow Espresso 5.5, PowerDVD 9, and PowerDirector 8

Taipei, Taiwan—January 07, 2010—CyberLink Corp. (5203.TW) is the first in the industry to optimize their multimedia applications to support the new Intel® Core™ Processor Family (Core i3, i5, and i7) with Intel® HD Graphics to deliver improved video encoding, transcoding, and playback performance on notebooks and PCs.

CyberLink continues to take great advantage of Intel’s Core technology features including Hyper-Threading Technology and Intel® Smart Cache Technology to boost performance and efficiency when working with digital media files.  With support for Core i3, i5, and i7 consumers can experience improvement in overall performance when previewing, effects rendering, portable device format conversions, Blu-ray playback, and burning to DVD or Blu-ray disc.

CyberLink is the first to take advantage of the hardware acceleration built into the Intel® Core™ Processor Family with Intel HD Graphics.  This benefits CyberLink’s MediaShow Espresso 5.5, MediaShow 5.1, and PowerDirector 8 to deliver faster video transcoding speed for an enhanced consumer experience.

"CyberLink continues to demonstrate our leadership position to enhance our multimedia applications with support for the Core Processor family," said Alice H. Chang, CEO of CyberLink.  “Our long-standing relationship with Intel ensures that our software applications are fully optimized for peak performance and efficiency on any Intel Core Processor platform resulting in a faster and better consumer experience."

"We are pleased that CyberLink is supporting Intel’s Core Processor Family with their portfolio of products allowing users to more seamlessly create, share and enjoy their media," said Eric Mentzer, Vice President, Intel Architecture Group and Director, Visual Computing Architecture at Intel. “We acknowledge CyberLink for their commitment to putting the consumer first by leveraging our advanced CPU computing technologies and hardware acceleration to deliver new levels of creativity and performance on demand.”

Consumers can enjoy the following benefits:

• CyberLink MediaShow Espresso 5.5, an easy to use video converter application that prepares digital video for a wide variety of portable devices, such as the iPod, iPhone, or PSP.  MediaShow Espresso 5.5 leverages the hardware acceleration built into the 2010 Intel® Core™ Processor Family with Intel HD Graphics to deliver high transcoding speeds with excellent quality.

• CyberLink MediaShow 5.1, a powerful solution for managing and enjoying your photos and videos enables faster transcoding speeds and efficient CPU usage with support for the Intel® Core™ Processor Family with Intel HD Graphics.  

• CyberLink PowerDVD 9, an industry leading video player software enables consumers with Intel Core Processors to enjoy improved Blu-ray playback performance on notebooks and PCs.

• CyberLink PowerDirector 8, an award winning video editing software program that features full end to end support for high definition video, from importing to editing and output. PowerDirector enhances overall HD video editing performances by harnessing the full power of the CPU to achieve better performance and efficient CPU usage during HD video editing.

About CyberLink
CyberLink Corp is the leader and pioneer in enabling digital multimedia on PCs and CEs through the use of video editing software, DVD player software, and other multimedia solutions. Backed by a group of high-caliber software engineers, CyberLink owns its core codec and a number of patented technologies. CyberLink has built a solid reputation for delivering high-quality, interoperable, and fast time-to-market solutions that keep our OEM partners on the leading edge. Our business partners include leaders in the PC industry: drive manufacturers, graphics-card makers, and top-5 desktop and notebook brands. Today, CyberLink’s software solutions include: complete applications for Blu-ray Discs, digital home entertainment, TV-on-PC and human resource development. With customers spanning from multi-national corporations to small/medium-sized businesses, and from power users to home users, CyberLink has enjoyed rapid and consistent growth leading to a record breaking IPO in 2000 on the Taiwan Over The Counter Exchange (OTC: 5203). Currently, CyberLink is listed on the Taiwan Stock Exchange (ticker symbol: 5203.TW). CyberLink's worldwide headquarters is located in Taipei. To keep up with market demands, CyberLink has operations in North America, Europe and the Asia Pacific region, including Japan. For more information, please visit CyberLink's website at www.cyberlink.com.

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