ASUS Selects Cavium's PureVu® SoC for its Wireless Display Adapter for ASUS MeMO Pad FHD10 Tablets

SAN JOSE, Calif., June 4, 2013 /PRNewswire/ -- Cavium, Inc. (NASDAQ: CAVM), a leading provider of semiconductor products that enable intelligent processing for networking, communications and the digital home, today announced that ASUS Miracast dongle wireless display adapter uses Cavium's market-leading PureVu CNW6611L media SoC to enable superior media streaming and mirroring capabilities, compatible with ASUS's latest tablet models. The tablet and adapter pair are optimized to use both mirroring and DLNA to maximize user experience and battery life for tablets – mirroring enables highly interactive content at low latency, while DLNA enables content rendering without compromising quality and battery life. Live demonstrations of the ASUS MeMO Pad FHD10 and the new media adapter will be available at ASUS's Booth, TWTC NanGang from June 3rd through June 6th.

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"ASUS is one of the leaders in Android and Windows tablet market always bringing cutting edge products to consumers," said Brian Tang, Sr. Director, Product Marketing. "As consumers demand feature-rich tablets that do not compromise battery life, we found a perfect solution with Cavium's complete media sharing reference solution powered by award winning multi-codec media SoC. With Cavium, we are able to extend beyond just mirroring giving us the flexibility to provide a better user experience within the market timeframe we were looking at for our launch."

The high performance media processing engine of CNW6611L SoC provides the flexibility to decode and display a wide range of high quality content. Leveraging Cavium's industry leading technology in low latency video processing, the ASUS's new adapter offers optimized end-to-end latency at 1080p resolution to provide the consumer seamless interactivity for applications such as gaming.  Still within USB-power budget, ASUS's new Miracast dongle media adapter is a must-have accessory for ASUS MeMO Pad FHD10 users.

About Cavium, Inc.
Cavium is a leading provider of highly integrated semiconductor products that enable intelligent processing in networking, communications and the digital home. Cavium offers a broad portfolio of integrated, software compatible processors ranging in performance from 100 Mbps to over 100 Gbps that enable secure, intelligent functionality in enterprise, data-center, broadband/consumer and access & service provider equipment. Cavium's processors are supported by ecosystem partners that provide operating systems, tool support, reference designs and other services. Cavium's principal offices are in San Jose, California with design team locations in California, Massachusetts, India and China. For more information, please visit: http://www.cavium.com.

About ASUS
ASUS is a worldwide top-three consumer notebook vendor and maker of the world's best-selling, most award-winning, motherboards. A leading enterprise in the new digital era, ASUS designs and manufactures products that perfectly meet the needs of today's digital home and office, with a broad portfolio that includes motherboards, graphics cards, optical drives, displays, desktop and all-in-one PCs, notebooks, netbooks, servers, multimedia devices, wireless solutions, networking devices, tablets and smartphones. Driven by innovation and committed to quality, ASUS won 4,168 awards in 2012 and is widely credited with revolutionizing the PC industry with its Eee PC™. ASUS has more than 12,500 employees around the globe with a world-class R&D team of 3,800 engineers. Company revenue for 2012 was approximately US$14 billion.

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