''Vivitar's first PMA announcement, the ViviCam 2795, features still image, video and audio recording capabilities, as well as MP3 playback. The unit, actually manufactured by Taiwanese company Premier Image Technology Corp.''

Premier Image Technology Corp. Card
''Traditional and digital camera maker, Premier Image Technology, is Taiwan's biggest camera maker and the world's #1 maker of traditional and compact cameras. This document profiles Premier's operations, including contact information, product lines, contract manufacturing activities, China manufacturing facilities and shipments.

John Huang, Chairman of Premier Image Technology Corporation, said, "Our new strategic alignment with Syntax-Brillian invigorates our support of the Vivitar digital camera line, as well as the development of a new generation of LCoS(TM) microdisplay related products for the consumer electronics marketplace."

Products Ittiam has licensed to global companies include a VoIP signal processing suite including telephony functions and echo canceller to ARC International plc (Elstree, England), VoIP voice processing codecs to Texas Instruments, software system for a tapeless digital camcorder to Premier Image Technology Corp., a leading elecronics OEM in Taiwan, and video and image codecs to Veo (San Jose, Calif.).

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''Hon Hai Acquires Premier Image for NT$28.2 billion

(Taiwan Economic News Via Thomson Dialog NewsEdge) Taipei, June 23, 2006 (CENS)--Hon Hai Precision Industry Co. Ltd., Taiwan's largest privately owned enterprise, recently announced it will acquire the world's largest contract manufacturer of digital still cameras-Premier Image Technology Corp.-through a share-swap transaction in an NT$28.2 billion (US$881.25 million at US$1:NT$32) deal

Through the acquisition, Hon Hai will be able to consolidate optical, electronic device, and electrical machinery manufacturing under one roof. By doing so, digital still cameras will become one of Hon Hai's three largest consumer electronics lines, in addition to game consoles, such as the PS2 and PSP, and the "iPod" digital music players