Avnet Electronics Marketing Asia announced it has signed a distribution agreement with Uchips to market and support UChips products across Asia, including Australia, China, India, Korea, Malaysia, New Zealand, Philippines, Singapore, Thailand, Taiwan and Vietnam. UChips is a developer of mobile 3D accelerators especially for mobile phones and handheld devices. The company focuses on solutions suited for 3D navigation applications and 3D games.

"UChips' 3D total solutions offer customers strong competitive advantages in terms of ultra low power and high integration function with cost effectiveness. The unique strengths well address the surging demand of high functionality mobile devices," said C.C. Lim, vice president of marketing, Avnet Electronics Marketing Asia. "We believe the combined strengths of the two companies will deliver time-to-market benefits and outstanding values to help our customers stay ahead of the competition."

"UChips has a proven track record of its accelerator products. We have developed a total solution with a portable media player using UChips' accelerator and a complementary product, RMI Alchemy Au1200, which is a highly integrated, power-optimized processor with an on-chip media acceleration engine. We offer another 3D navigation solution which combines UChips' accelerator with Samsung SC2440 and Centrality Communications Atlas-II.," stated Yong-Hwan, Jeong, CEO of Uchips.

UChips' latest accelerator product, the F3D2050, includes XGA support, DMB interface support, integrated TV encoder, graphic memory (16/32MB) and an MCP version.