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RMI’s Alchemy(TM) Au1200 Mobile Processor Receives DivX Portable Certification

October 10, 2006

RMI Creates Platform for Personal Media Players and Digital Media Products with High-Quality DivX Video

CUPERTINO & SAN DIEGO, Calif.–(BUSINESS WIRE)–Raza Microelectronics, a leading chip manufacturer, and DivX, Inc. (Nasdaq:DIVX), the digital media company that created the DivX media format, today announced that the RMI Alchemy Au1200(TM) Processor has received DivX Certification. Devices built upon the RMI platform will be able to take advantage of the processor’s low-power and high performance solution to provide an easy design path for portable media players, automotive devices, and digital media adapters. All such devices will be able to decode high-quality DivX video.
The RMI Alchemy Au1200, a leading processor in the worldwide Personal Media Player (PMP) market, enables users to download media quickly and to enjoy high-quality video efficiently delivered at full-frame rates, with low-power, and with ample product features. The chip’s integrated Media Acceleration Engine is capable of decoding DivX media files with up to D1 resolution at 30 frames per second. RMI provides DivX decode support on both Linux and Windows CE based SDKs.

“DivX is very happy to partner with RMI to bring DivX Certified solutions to consumer electronics OEMs around the world,” said Kevin Hell, CXO at DivX, Inc. “RMI’s adoption of DivX decoding technology will provide significant value to OEMs looking to implement a full-featured, high-performance mobile devices that enable consumers to enjoy their DivX format videos.”

“RMI is pleased to have DivX decoding capabilities on the cutting-edge Alchemy Au1200 processor, continuing to give us a powerful position in this rapidly growing market,” said Mike Wodopian, vice president and general manager, Alchemy Solutions at RMI. “DivX is among the world’s most popular video compression technologies with over 180 million downloads worldwide, and supporting this feature enables us to expand our leadership in the evolving digital environment.”

Products that bear the DivX Certified logo have undergone a rigorous testing program to ensure interoperability, security and visual quality. DivX Certified products enable consumers to create, play and share high-quality video content across a range of devices and platforms. Over 46 million DivX Certified hardware devices from a variety of manufacturers have been shipped worldwide.

For more information on DivX Certification, see https://www.divx.com/certification/

About DivX, Inc.

DivX creates products and services designed to improve the experience of media. Our first product offering was a video compression-decompression software library, or codec, which has been actively sought out and downloaded over 180 million times in the last four years, including over 50 million times during the last twelve months. We have since built on the success of our codec with other consumer software, including the DivX Player application. We distribute this software from our website, DivX.com, which was visited on average by over five million unique visitors per month during the second quarter of 2006. We also license our technologies to consumer hardware device manufacturers and certify their products to ensure the interoperable support of DivX-encoded content. Over 46 million DivX Certified hardware devices have been shipped worldwide, including over 10 million devices reported to us by our customers during the second quarter of 2006. In addition to technology licensing to consumer hardware device manufacturers, we currently generate revenue from software licensing, advertising and content distribution.

About RMI

Raza Microelectronics, Inc. (RMIĀ®) is a fabless semiconductor company providing highly-integrated feature-rich products ranging from power-optimized System-on-a-Chip (SoC) solutions to High-Performance Processors for the Digital Consumer, Wireless, Networking and Security markets. RMI offers the most advanced and the most complete MIPS-BasedĀ® processing solutions with both 32/64-bit architectures supporting frequencies from 300MHz to 1.2 GHz. The company is headquartered in Cupertino, CA with subsidiary offices in Texas, India, Korea, Japan, Taiwan and China. More information about RMI can be found on the company’s website at www.RazaMicro.com

Forward-Looking Statements

Statements in this press release that are not strictly historical in nature constitute “forward-looking statements.” Such statements include, but are not limited to, statements regarding the adoption and capability of DivX decoding technology. Such forward- looking statements involve known and unknown risks, uncertainties and other factors which may cause DivX’s actual results to be materially different from historical results or from any results expressed or implied by such forward-looking statements. These factors include, but are not limited to, risks and uncertainties related to the maintenance and strength of the DivX brand; DivX’s ability to penetrate existing and new markets; the effects of competition; DivX’s dependence on its licensees and partners; the effect of intellectual property rights claims; and other factors discussed in the “Risk Factors” section of DivX’s final prospectus filed with the SEC on September 22, 2006. All forward-looking statements are qualified in their entirety by this cautionary statement. DivX is providing this information as of the date of this release and does not undertake any obligation to update any forward-looking statements contained in this release as a result of new information, future events or otherwise.

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