Cirrus Logic’s Maverick™ Processor Chosen For Turtle Beach™ Audiotron™ Internet Audio Appliance

Maverick Internet technology delivers advanced processing and security features for

Cirrus Logic Inc.(NASDAQ:CRUS), the market leader in audio chips worldwide, today announced that its Maverick system-on-chip (SOC) Internet audio solution will be featured in the new Turtle Beach™ AudioTron™ Internet audio appliance being featured at this week’s E3 conference in Los Angeles in Turtle Beach’s booth, number 6415.

The AudioTron device, which was recently highlighted by Bill Gates in his keynote presentation at the Windows Hardware Engineering Conference (WinHEC), incorporates home networking technology to remotely play digital music stored on a user’s personal computer, as well as audio originating from the Internet. For instance, an AudioTron in the living room can play Microsoft’s Windows Media Audio (WMA) and MP3 files saved on a PC located in another part of the house. AudioTron is expected to ship this fall for the U.S. and Canadian holiday buying season.

“Cirrus Logic’s Maverick processor offers an excellent solution for our first mass-market PC appliance, “says Carmine J. Bonanno, president and CEO, Voyetra Turtle Beach. “We are excited to be working with Cirrus Logic to help broaden the scope of how consumers interact with the Internet through entertainment devices.”

AudioTron consists of four components – the PC song capture and management software (Voyetra®’s AudioStation® 4.0), an HPNA-compliant phone networking card, the AudioTron base unit, and a remote control. Since the digital files are transmitted over home phone wires using the HPNA 2.0 standard, and decompressed on the fly by the base unit (up to a CD-like sample quality of 48KHz), users will experience no interference with normal phone calls or DSL Internet connections. An add-on board providing Ethernet and USB connections will be available for use in homes or offices wired with a dedicated network.

“The strength of our Maverick solution is that it is form factor independent and capable of powering a wide range of Internet devices, from portable audio players to complicated home stereo systems,” says Matthew Perry, vice president and general manager of Cirrus Logic’s Embedded Processors Division. “The selection of our Maverick processor by Turtle Beach reinforces our position as the optimal solution for Internet audio devices.”

The Maverick processor provides the AudioTron with high-quality, multi-standard audio decoding; Home PNA, Ethernet and USB network connectivity; and the ability to include digital rights management protection for music content.

The Maverick processor provides high-quality audio decoding for the most popular Internet audio coding standards. With the Maverick processors’ ability to decode not only MP3, but also Windows Media Audio and other popular decoding standards, the AudioTron device will be capable of handling any audio compression format demanded by the market. The Maverick processor can be quickly modified to support other audio compression standards (codecs) as they emerge, or add valuable features such as equalization without redesigning the players.

As an off-the-shelf market-specific processor (MSP), the Maverick processor features a programmable ARM processor core that allows not only decoding of audio in real time but also provides the ability to run multiple popular operating systems. The AudioTron, which uses Microsoft’s WindowsCE, provides consumers with out of the box connectivity to manage and transfer files from their PC.

The Maverick solution is also capable of addressing the digital rights management concerns that have fueled the music content providers’ recent concerns over companies like Napster and MP3.com. The Maverick processor is the first chip to support both the Windows® Media Format and InterTrust® digital rights management solutions for securing digital rights for artists and music content providers.

About Voyetra Turtle Beach

Voyetra Turtle Beach, one of the world’s leading PC audio solutions providers, has worked with more than 150 leading manufacturers, distributors, and retailers. In addition to its OEM and retail sales, Voyetra Turtle Beach offers its entire line of products directly to consumers via its e-commerce Web site (http://www.voyetra-turtle-beach.com).

About Cirrus Logic

Cirrus Logic is a premier supplier of high-performance analog and DSP chip solutions for Internet entertainment electronics. Building on its global market share leadership in audio integrated circuits and its rich mixed-signal patent portfolio, the company targets high-volume audio, storage and communications applications. Cirrus Logic sells its products under the Crystal®, Maverick(TM) and 3Ci(TM) brands as well as its own name. Founded in 1984 in Silicon Valley, Cirrus Logic operates from headquarters in Austin and major sites located in Fremont, Calif. and Broomfield, Colo. as well as offices in Europe, Japan and Asia. More information about Cirrus Logic is available at www.cirrus.com.

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Note to editors: Cirrus Logic and Maverick are registered trademarks of Cirrus Logic Inc. AudioTron and Turtle Beach are trademarks of Voyetra Turtle Beach, Inc. AudioStation and Voyetra are registered trademarks of Voyetra Turtle Beach, Inc. All other product names noted herein may be trademarks of their respective holders.

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