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Jul. 22, 2003
CyberLink PowerDVD 5 Chosen by Gigabyte

PowerDVD 5 to be included in the ATI powered Gigabyte VGA empire

Taipei, Taiwan----July 22, 2003----CyberLink Corp., a leading developer of digital video software and e-learning solutions, announced today that PowerDVD 5 was selected by Gigabyte to be bundled with its advanced ATI powered VGA Empire. PowerDVD 5 is the latest release from CyberLink featuring breakthrough technologies to bring a theater-like DVD experience right to the PC or notebook.

"PowerDVD 5 is a clear choice for us," said David Chiang, general manager of channel business of Gigabyte. "Its new technologies are amazing and they turn any consumer PC into a high quality home theater. We believe that together with our ATI powered graphics cards, the combination will deliver high performance DVD enjoyment to our consumer PC users."

"We are pleased to announce this bundling agreement with Gigabyte," said Alice H. Chang. "Our newest version of PowerDVD 5 comes with new technologies to provide even better viewing and listening experience in a PC or notebook environment. Ever since its release, PowerDVD 5 has won many praise from our customers worldwide. This kind of response will push us to continue to deliver new breakthrough technologies for the digital video and audio world." New technologies in PowerDVD 5 include CLEV™ to enhance color and contrast of movies displayed on LCDs, CLPV™ to adjust wide screen movies into full screen display or vice versa with minimal distortion, and CLMEI™ to convert 2-channel audio and output to multi-channel speakers for a surround sound effect. PowerDVD 5 is now also available in different editions with different sets of features and functions to meet the requirements of hardware bundling suppliers.

About Gigabyte New VGA Empire
Gigabyte leverages ATI's innovative graphics technology and penetrates her power to graphics card market. Adopting ATI leading graphics engine, Radeon 9800PRO, 9600PRO, 9600, 9200, 9200SE, 7000 series products, Gigabyte recently launched her flagship product, GV-R98256D, GV-R98128D based on R9800 PRO and GV-R96P128D based on R9600PRO, GV-R96128D based on R9600, GV-R92128VH, GV-R92128DH, GV-R92128TE and GV-R9264DH based on R9200, GV-R92S128T and GV-R9264T based on R9200SE and GV-R7064T and GV-R7032T based on R7000 which are the first graphics accelerator card to supporting latest AGP 8X, 8-pixel pipeline and MicrosoftO DirectXO 9.0 in the world. Furthermore, Gigabyte is the 1st tier supplier who offers the complete full line VGA product in ATI solutions.

About PowerDVD 5.0
PowerDVD is the world's leading DVD software player. The new release PowerDVD 5 features breakthrough technologies to deliver a theater-like DVD experience on a PC or notebook. The new technologies include: CLEV™ to enhance color and contrast of movies displayed on LCDs, CLPV™, which easily adjusts wide screen movies into full screen (4:3) display or vice versa with minimal distortion, and CLMEI™, which converts 2-channel audio and output to multi-channel speakers for a surround sound effect. Other new features for interactivity and personalized viewing experience can be found at www.gocyberlink.com

About Gigabyte
Founded in 1986, Gigabyte Technology has built an unshakable reputation and solid foundation in the computer industry on the reliability of its motherboards and add-on card products. In diversifying from this solid base, Gigabyte Technology is devoting it's resources to expanding into new product lines, such as desktop platform solutions, servers, broadband routers, Gigabit switches, wireless LAN, and NAS (Network Attached Storage) appliances.
With a talented, resourceful infrastructure and design capability, from Motherboard, VGA, Desktop Platform, to Communication and Server, Gigabyte Technology has developed a full-scale product network, not only creating the ideal platform for the world of Internet connectivity but also resulting in new concepts in most all aspects of our lives. In the coming information appliance age, Gigabyte Technology is users' premier companion to brighten people's mind-scope and future life.

About CyberLink Corp.
Founded in 1995, CyberLink Corp. is a world leader and pioneer in bringing advanced digital video and audio software applications to market. The products are categorized into two major lines: Digital Multimedia Applications and E-Learning Solutions. Digital Multimedia products focus on Media Creation by advancing the technologies to capture, edit, author and record all types of media; as well as Digital Entertainment by perfecting state-of-the-art technologies to providing high quality media enjoyment on the PC. These award-winning software applications are ideal solutions for turning today's mainstream computers into home theaters and digital video centers. The company's E-Learning Solutions include authoring tools to creating training contents and training management systems that offer an easy and cost effective way to deliver and manage training programs over corporate intranets or the Internet. As a result of the company's solid growth and profitability, CyberLink became a public company in October, 2000 and is listed on the Taiwan Over The Counter Exchange (OTC: 5203). To keep up with market demands, CyberLink has operations in North America, Europe and the Asia Pacific region including Japan. CyberLink's worldwide headquarters are in Taipei and the company website is: www.goCyberlink.com.

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Corporate: Renee Chen at press@gocyberlink.com or by phone at: +886-2-8667-1298, ext. 301 for more details.