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- Founder: Hiro Kozato

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Techwell Announces Tornado Turn Key PCI DVR Card for the CCTV Security Surveillance Market

TW6802 Video Decoder with PCI Drives Feature Rich, Low Cost PC DVR Card Solution

SAN JOSE, Calif. (March 27, 2007) - Techwell, Inc. (Nasdaq:TWLL), ), a leading designer of mixed signal video semiconductor solutions for the security surveillance, automotive, and consumer electronics markets, today announced a fully optimized PC DVR Card solution for the CCTV Security Surveillance market. Leveraging its leading NTSC/PAL video decoding technology, the Tornado solution will enable PCI Card manufacturers and PC based system integrators to go to market quickly with a highly functional, cost effective solution. In mass production today, Tornado includes PCI card schematics, source code and application drivers.

"Merging our expertise in advanced NTSC/PAL video decoding with a complete turn key PCI solution further demonstrates Techwell's commitment to provide complete DVR solutions to manufacturers of security surveillance products," said David Nam, VP Sales and Marketing for Techwell. "We look forward to working with our PCI Card customers on this design."

The Techwell Tornado solution supports 4, 8 or 16 channels recording at various frame rates and resolutions. In addition, the Tornado application software allows for playback, rewind, fast-forward, search and other standard DVR functions. The Techwell PCI Card leverages Techwell's TW6802 video decoder with PCI and has a reliable TV quality video decoder core including 2D (4H) comb filter and exceptional weak signal performance for weak signal camera support.

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About Techwell
Techwell is a semiconductor company that designs, markets and sells mixed signal integrated circuits for multiple video applications in the security surveillance, automotive and consumer electronics markets. Techwell designs both general purpose and application specific products that enable the conversion of analog video signals to digital form and perform advanced digital video processing to facilitate the display, storage and transport of video content. Headquartered in San Jose, CA, Techwell currently has over 90 employees in the U.S., Korea, Taiwan, China and Japan. Please visit www.techwellinc.com for more information.

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