High-Performance Standalone MJPEG IP ‘WAVE-J’ by Chips&Media Widely Adopted Across Diverse Applications

• Delivering unparalleled flexibility and efficiency compared to conventional bundled VPUs.
• Rapid market adoption across global SoC leaders since its 2025 launch, accelerating momentum with the new 'WAVE-JP'.

August 20, 2026 – Chips&Media (CEO Steve Kim, KOSDAQ: 094360), a leading global provider of video IP technology, announced today that its high-performance Motion JPEG (MJPEG) hardware IP, the ‘WAVE-J’ series, is experiencing rapid market adoption and strong commercial momentum across diverse business domains, including Mobile, Physical AI, and Datacenters.

While competitors typically offer JPEG capabilities bundled within large, complex Video Processing Units (VPUs), Chips&Media has distinguished itself by offering WAVE-J as a dedicated, standalone HW IP. This unique approach allows SoC designers to achieve peak image processing performance without the silicon area overhead and power penalties associated with integrated VPUs.

Since its debut in 2025, WAVE-J has quickly established a robust licensing track record, being actively chosen by multiple leading semiconductor and system companies worldwide. The broad appeal of WAVE-J across diverse industries is driven by its exceptional architecture and highly flexible offerings:

• Unmatched Performance & Bandwidth: WAVE-J supports massive image sizes up to 64K x 64K and features a 128-bit AXI4 interface alongside rich pre- and post-processing capabilities, ensuring bottleneck-free throughput in demanding environments.
• Four Versatile Versions: To cater to a broad spectrum of requirements, Chips&Media offers 4 distinct versions of the JPEG IP tailored by silicon footprint and target performance.
• Extreme Customizability: Within each version, customers can fully customize configurations—such as selecting Encoder-only options, 8-bit or 12-bit color depth, and specific pre/post-processing features—to precisely match their target SoC architecture.

Building on this market momentum, Chips&Media recently launched ‘WAVE-JP’, an advanced IP integrating APV (Advanced Professional Video) capabilities into the proven JPEG architecture. The new solution is already attracting strong industry interest from customers aiming to future-proof their high-resolution imaging pipelines.

“WAVE-J addresses a long-standing market demand for a lightweight, ultra-high-performance, and standalone JPEG IP,” said a spokesperson for Chips&Media. “We remain committed to delivering agile and customized IP solutions that empower global chip designers to innovate across edge and cloud platforms.”

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• Image Codec/Encoder/Decoder - ISO/IEC 10918-1 JPEG standard

About Chips&Media Inc.

Chips&Media is a multimedia IP leader offering HW video codec IP, image processing NPU, lossless/lossy frame buffer compression IP & others. Since 2003, Chips&Media has exclusively focused on the HW video codec IP industry. It has powered over 3,000,000,000 units in the market, adopted by more than 150 semiconductor companies. Chips&Media's video codec IP supports all major and legacy formats from 1080p up to 8K 120fps, including HEVC/H.265, AVC/H.264, AV2, AV1, VP9, APV, VVC, JPEG & others. The recent introduction of our image processing NPU IP is transforming Chips&Media into a premium multimedia IP provider. It is custom NPU designed to work for imaging application at high-quality and high-resolution in edge devices.

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