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ARC: “Enabling the YouTube Generation”
Consumers around the globe are using a growing number of electronic products to capture, share, and play multimedia content. This trend is driving the adoption of higher quality audio and video technology. Improving consumers’ multimedia experiences – regardless of their electronic device of choice – presents a significant market opportunity and is a key part of ARC’s strategy.
ARC International develops and licenses consumer IP in the form of multimedia subsystems and related technologies to semiconductor companies worldwide. ARC’s award-winning solutions are “market ready” and enable customers to create differentiated silicon chips that deliver an enhanced multimedia experience to consumers. Sonic Focus, an ARC International company, licenses award-winning audio enhancement software to OEM companies, bringing the consumer closer to the original artist’s performance.
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ARC’s Business Model
ARC develops and licenses vertically integrated multimedia IP to semiconductor companies. ARC derives contract revenue from licensing agreements and royalty revenue when customers’ ARC-Based chips ship to market. An ARC-Based chip can take three years or more before it sees commercial success due to the length of time it takes to develop, test, and introduce a complex semiconductor device. ARC’s financial results have consistently outperformed the overall semiconductor industry and many of its direct competitors.
Sonic Focus, an ARC International Company, also commands contract and royalty revenue from its audio post-processing software that is licensed to OEM companies.
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ARC’s Markets
ARC’s technology is driving an increasing number of high growth markets relating to how multimedia content is captured, shared, and played. Whether it’s audio and video players, camera-enabled cell phones, removable storage cards, or wirelessly enabled laptops, ARC-Based electronic devices are helping consumers around the world experience high quality multimedia content.
In 2007 ARC’s customers shipped more than 300 million ARC-Based chips in a wide rage of end markets. Some of these markets have been identified by Semico Research Corporation, which is one of the semiconductor industry’s premier market analyst firms. Semico predicts significant compound annual growth rates through 2011 for eight of the top markets ARC customers are targeting:
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ARC’s Strategic Acquisitions
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Sonic Focus, Inc.
In February, 2008 ARC acquired Sonic Focus, which is a privately held company based in Northern California. Sonic Focus provides award-winning audio enhancement software that restores natural surround sound to digitally compressed stereo files. The company has an established revenue stream and growing customer list of leading OEMs, with close to 20 million customer products shipping to market annually.
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Teja Technologies
In April, 2007 ARC acquired Teja Technologies that was located in Northern California, which developed software used for the creation of chips implementing multiple processors.
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Alarity Corporation, Inc.
In September, 2007 ARC acquired Alarity and its renowned team of specialists in multimedia software applications that are based in St. Petersburg, Russia.
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Tenison Technology EDA, Ltd.
In June, 2007 ARC acquired Tenison, which was located in Cambridge, England. Tenison provided highly accurate simulation models of processors and system-on-chips (SoCs).
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