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Microsoft and RealNetworks Led the Agenda at ConfigCon™ Taiwan 2007; Event Attracted Record Crowd

ST. ALBANS, England, May 16, 2007 - ARC International (LSE: ARK) today announced that ConfigCon™ Taiwan 2007 returned to its birthplace and attracted close to 400 attendees, the largest in the event's history. Thirteen companies spoke about a wide range of solutions that enable system-on-chip (SoC) designers to create low power chips for multimedia applications using configurable media subsystems and cores. Headlining the event's agenda were senior executives from RealNetworks, Microsoft, NemeriX, and ARC International. ConfigCon Taiwan follows the successful ConfigCon Israel conference that took place in March, which attracted close to 300 attendees. Next will be ConfigCon China 2007 that will take place in Shanghai on June 21st, and free registration is now available to qualified applicants. Visit www.configcon.com for details on each event in the 2007 series, including downloadable presentations from ConfigCon Taiwan 2007 and all prior ConfigCon events.

The agenda for ConfigCon Taiwan 2007 included four compelling morning keynotes:

1. Carl Schlachte, president and CEO of ARC, discussed the future of SoC design and what technologies and design strategies engineers must employ today in order to meet future application requirements. Schlachte also discussed how Taiwan's semiconductor industry is evolving and increasingly relying on technology innovation as a key differentiator against competing regions.
2. Doug Kaplan, vice president for Asia for RealNetworks (an ARC partner), described a burgeoning handheld and wired multimedia market in Asia, led by China. He pointed to statistics showing that 90 percent of the peer-to-peer media content in China is in RealVideo or RealMedia Variable Bitrate (RMVB) formats. He also cited pent-up consumer demand for multimedia content on portable media devices.
3. Lewis Boore, vice president of marketing at NemeriX (an ARC customer), cited a rapidly growing market for ultra-low-power semiconductor chips for Global Positioning System (GPS) and location-based services. NemeriX produces innovative ARC-Based™ chips that enable handheld and vehicular-mounted devices to determine their longitude, latitude, and altitude to within a few meters of accuracy from satellite signals.
4. Dr. Jason Ma, general manager at the Microsoft Technology Center in Hsinchu (an ARC partner), demonstrated an impressive high-definition photo interchange format that preserves the entire dynamic range of a captured image in a file that is half the size of a JPEG. He also described the vision and strategy for Microsoft's new Digital Rights Management offering, PlayReady.

About ConfigCon™
ConfigCon is a global developer conference that informs SoC engineers on hardware and software solutions based upon configurable processor technology - the industry's fastest growing microprocessor architecture according to industry analysts. 1,000 people attended three ConfigCon events in 2006. For 2007 ConfigCon is expanding to new locations. Visit www.configcon.com to stay informed about venues, agendas, registration information, and copies of speaker presentations.

About ARC International plc
ARC International is the world leader in configurable subsystems and CPU/DSP processors that are used by semiconductor companies worldwide to create system-on-chip (SoC) designs that provide a strategic competitive advantage. ARC's patented configurable products are smaller, consume less power, are less expensive to manufacture, and provide a higher degree of differentiation over what can be created using "fixed architecture" core alternatives.

ARC International maintains a worldwide presence with corporate and research and development offices in California and Elstree, UK. For more information visit www.ARC.com.  ARC International is listed on the London Stock Exchange as ARC International plc (LSE: ARK).

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