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ARC: Enabling the Multimedia Revolution

ARC International (LSE: ARK) is fueling the multimedia revolution by enabling high quality multimedia content to be captured, shared, and played on a wide variety of consumer electronics devices. ARC licenses award-winning consumer intellectual property (IP) in the form of vertically integrated solutions, configurable audio systems, configurable video systems, configurable processors, and related technologies to semiconductor and OEM companies worldwide. These highly integrated products allow for lower development costs and accelerated time-to-market. ARC solutions also enable customers to create differentiated consumer electronic products that deliver an enhanced multimedia experience on a variety of products such as digital and mobile TVs, portable media players, PCs, laptops, flash storage, digital cameras and music and smart phones.

A History of Enabling Customer Success

ARC has more than 150+ customers worldwide that collectively have taped-out hundreds of successful ARC-Based™ SoCs and ship more than 300 million chips annually. ARC has the broadest portfolio of market ready multimedia solutions that come with a full suite of software and hardware development tools. These are backed by a worldwide customer support team that is ready to ease the development process 24 hours a day, 7 days a week.


“We use ARC because it’s an industry standard and its low power profile.”	“Audio on the HP TouchSmart PC is simply amazing"	“Good sound for an ultra thin notebook -- the Lenovo ThinkPad x300 is astounding”


“ARC’s technology enhances our competitive differentiation.”	“We are pleased to standardize a key element of our technology strategy on ARC.”	“A collaboration between industry leaders in media- oriented applications.”


“ARC presented a programmable solution to accommodate the evolution of standards.”	“ARC’s technology has played a significant role in the success of our flash products.”	“Our investment in ARC is a strategic decision for Fujitsu.”

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ARC’s Market Ready Multimedia Solutions

ARC® "Sound-to-Silicon" Solutions

ARC’s "Sound-to-Silicon" solutions are an industry first, and can save OEM and semiconductor companies millions of dollars in development costs while providing consumers superior audio experiences for music, movies, and games. Learn more >>

ARC® Multimedia Subsystems

ARC provides a wide range of audio and video subsystems ideal for SoCs that power the next generation of consumer devices. Supported by a full suite of development tools these programmable, multi-standard subsystems reduce design risk and help designers get to market quickly. Learn more >>

ARC® Configurable Cores

ARC provides a compatible range of configurable 32-bit processors that offer both RISC and full performance DSP capabilities in a unified architecture. They range from the world's smallest, lowest power licensable 32-bit core to a full-featured host processor that delivers over 1000 DMIPS of performance with half the die size and power of competing cores. Learn more >>