An official from NVIDIA Corporation confirmed to Economic News news-paper, quoted by The Inquirer, that MediaQ will sustain its foundry relationship with UMC, who will manufacture media processors intended for PDAs and mobile phones for the new NVIDIA’s subsidiary. This will be the first time UMC will produce chips for NVIDIA, who has partnership with TSMC and IBM.

Founded in 1997, MediaQ’s core technologies enhance visual display capabilities, improve connectivity, and minimize chip and system-level power consumption. The company enhances its semiconductor product offerings with a comprehensive set of software, including drivers for major mobile operating systems (Microsoft PocketPC, Microsoft SmartPhone, Palm, Symbian) and APIs that improve OEM time to market. MediaQ’s Key market segments are 3G and 2.5G handsets, PDAs, LCD displays, and other mobile devices. MediaQ customers include leading handset and PDA manufacturers, such as Mitsubishi, Siemens, DBTel, Dell, HP, Palm, Philips, Sharp, and Sony.