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Haier Demonstrates High-Definition Television Integrated With Metalink's 802.11n WLANPlus at SINOCES (24/7/2006)

Metalink's WLANPlus Enables the Wireless Distribution of HD Video Streaming With Wireline Quality Throughout the Home

Metalink Ltd. (NASDAQ: MTLK), a provider of high-performance wireless and wireline broadband communication silicon solutions, today announced that it successfully demonstrated the integration of its WLANPlus(TM) 802.11n-draft compliant chip-set into Haier's high definition television sets at the SINOCES show in Qingdao, China, from July 7th-10th, 2006. Haier Corporation is the world's fourth largest home appliance manufacturer and the leading Chinese manufacturer of household electrical appliances. The joint demonstration featured the use of a WLANPlus-based wireless network to deliver multiple high-definition video streams to Haier HDTVs placed in different rooms, simulating a home environment.

Metalink's WLANPlus, an 802.11n-draft compliant chip-set family, is optimized to address the needs of the consumer electronics market. Featuring full support for the demanding optional specifications of the 802.11n-draft standard, Metalink's WLANPlus technology was designed to be a key enabler of high-definition video streaming applications throughout the home for a broad range of products such as Residential Gateways, DTV, HDTV, Set-Top Boxes, Media Adaptors and Digital Video Recorders (DVR).

Haier is now working with Metalink to incorporate its WLANPlus technology into Haier's next-generation television sets, DVRs, DVDs and other consumer electronics products.

"By integrating Haier and Metalink technologies, we have become the first to achieve the 'holy grail' of our industry -- wireless delivery of multiple HDTV streams to TV sets throughout the home at wireline quality," said Patrick Tam, Metalink's director of sales. "We are proud to join this world-leading company in establishing a new industry standard, an achievement which secures the leadership position of both companies in the home entertainment arena."

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