Partners

DRE's goal is to work in concert with partners throughout the radio and associated industries to create the most effective alliances for the implementation of FMeXtra and related technologies in the field of digital wireless mobile communications. To this end, we have formed successful working relationships with companies whose interests and marketplace strategies reflect our own outlook. Principal among them are:

ST Microelectronics, the 5th largest semiconductor manufacturer worldwide, has developed a broad range of semiconductor products to support digital subcarrier technology and other applications in telecommunications, automotive and consumer electronics. In addition, ST is one of the principal investors in DRE.

Rikei Corporation is a Japanese leading IT/Telecommunication solution supplier with the world's most advanced products and technologies being used as their core. Establishing solid business relationships with world-class companies is one of the founding principles of Rikei Corporation. Rikei, as an authorized representative of DRE in Asia, will develop digital broadcast market with DRE's FMeXtra digital subcarrier technology.

Coding Technologies aacPlus™ audio codec provides the audio compression technology that enables amazing audio quality to be delivered at startlingly low bitrates. aacPlus is the gold standard in audio compression worldwide, used by XM Radio™, Digital Radio Modiale, and many others, and is now standardized as MPEG High Efficiency AAC (HE-AAC). Coding Technologies continues to push the envelope with new advances in parametric stereo coding and surround sound. The marriage of aacPlus with DRE's FMeXtra digital broadcast technology is what enables multi-channel programming with FM subcarrier signals

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