Sunplus Technology extends license with Imagination Technologies

April 19, 2006 -- Imagination Technologies Group plc (LSE:IMG; "Imagination") – a leader in System on Chip Intellectual Property (" SoC IP") – reports that Sunplus Technology Company Limited (TAIEX: 2401, FTSE: SUPD; "Sunplus"), a leading consumer IC design company, has extended its license agreement with Imagination for PowerVR MBX IP cores for integration into a wider range of processors as SoC solutions for consumer electronics devices.

Under the terms of its licensing arrangements Imagination receives license fees and royalty revenues on SoCs incorporating Imagination’s IP shipped by partners.

This licence agreement was concluded in March 2006 and is one of the deals identified in Imagination’s trading update on 12 April 2006.

About Sunplus Technology
Sunplus Technology Company Limited, established in 1990, is an IC design company devoted to electrical consumer applications. Sunplus offers not only IC design but also system solutions to maximize customer's profit by differentiating each design. Sunplus' reusable IP such as audio/video, microprocessor and digital signal processor technologies applied to hundreds of IC products such as DVD player/recorder, LCD driver/controller, game processor, camera controller, mobile media processor and ASICs that contributed to our quality life. With sales of NT$18,781 million for 2005, Sunplus has a compound annual growth rate of over 30% over 5 years. For more information, please visit the Sunplus website: www.sunplus.com.

About Imagination Technologies
Imagination Technologies Group plc – a leader in SoC IP – develops, licenses and supplies market-leading graphics, video and display cores, real-time multi-threaded DSP/RISC processors and communication and broadcast technologies for the mobile, consumer, automotive and PC markets. It supplies licensable IP (Intellectual Property) supported by advanced development tools to leading semiconductor and consumer electronics companies worldwide. Imagination Technologies Group plc has its corporate headquarters in the United Kingdom and is publicly traded on the London Stock Exchange (FTSE:IMG). See: www.imgtec.com