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Jan. 3, 2001
CyberLink PowerDVD Chosen by COMPAQ for Presario 7CY006 Desktop PC

January 3, 2001----Taipei, Taiwan----CyberLink, a leading developer of digital video and streaming multimedia applications, announced today that its PowerDVD software has been chosen by Compaq Computer (NYSE: CPQ)to be included with its Presario 7CY006 PC for the German market. For Compaq, a Fortune Global 100 company and one of the largest suppliers of computing systems in the world, PowerDVD was the first choice to include with its Pentium III, 866Mhz desktop PC. Compaq's Presario 7CY006PC is available exclusively with its channel partner Media Markt from November 2000 on.

Once again, Compaq brings a high quality product to the consumer PC market, allowing consumers to efficiently run today's media-rich applications and easily access the Internet. The Presario 7CY006 is equipped with high-performance graphic and sound cards and a 12X DVD-ROM drive, together with PowerDVD's audio and video playback capabilities and vast range of features, in a hardware and software combination to optimize the DVD experience on the PC.

"PowerDVD is the premier DVD playback software solution for the PC," noted Alice H. Chang, CEO of CyberLink Corporation, "We are confident that it's inclusion with Compaq's Presario 7CY006 will offer consumers in Germany the most powerful combination of hardware and software to take advantage of the PC's interactive and multimedia capabilities."

PowerDVD is the flagship of CyberLink's complete range of video and audio software products. It features unrivaled functions allowing users to view high quality video and media-rich DVD contents on the personal computer. Together with its robust hardware integration and compatibility, as well as low CPU consumption, PowerDVD offers high performance video playback that rivals any hardware MPEG solution. It's high quality video and audio playback has not only won the praise of its many users, but also from the industry experts. The latest version of PowerDVD is version 3.0 which features enhanced quality video and audio decoding and many new functions not available in the previous version 2.55.

About CyberLink Corp.

Founded in 1995, CyberLink Corporation develops award winning software solutions utilizing digital video and audio kernel technology. The company believes digital video and audio technologies can be used creatively in building innovative software tools like digital video recording, multimedia slide shows, DVD playback, and video communication tools. Its multimedia and Web software solutions enable customers to fully utilize the PC's audio and video capabilities, while also supporting real-time Internet services and communication. As a result of the company's solid growth and profitability CyberLink went IPO in October of 2000 and is listed on the Taiwan OTC (Over The Counter) Exchange. To keep up with market demands, CyberLink has operations in North America, Europe, the Pacific Rim and Japan.

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