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TVIA EXPANDS R&D AND INFRASTRUCTURE TO CAPITALIZE ON ITS LEADERSHIP POSITION IN INTERATIVE MARKETS

Tvia Introduces the Company and its Products at CES in Las Vegas
　　

CES - Las Vegas - January 10, 2001 - Tvia, Inc (NASDAQ: TVIA) is formally introducing the company and its products at CES. The company's market direction targets interactive/Internet applications for Internet appliance, broadband set top box and digital television. Reflecting this new focus, the company changed its name last year to Tvia, Inc. (for television interactive) from IGST (IGS Technologies, Inc.).
　　

Specifically, Tvia designs, develops, and markets high-performance, streaming media gateway silicon solutions for the Internet appliance, broadband set-top box and digital television markets. The company's CyberPro software-based, silicon solutions offer the ability to simultaneously processes multiple streams of rich, media content including video, audio, voice, text and animation, perform scaling, de-interlacing, overlay and transparency and picture-in-picture.
　　

Due to the software element of the CyberPro family of products, Tvia's solutions are flexible and upgradeable allowing OEMs to develop multiple products from a single hardware platform with the ability to capture and process new media.
　　

Tvia has established partnerships with major real time operating systems (RTOS) companies including WindRiver, Microsoft, QNX and Microware, middleware companies such as Liberate Technologies, and CPU companies including AMD, Hitachi, QED (PMC-Sierra) and Transmeta. These partnerships enable OEMs to develop their products achieving overall system cost reduction and reduced time to market.

Currently, Tvia works with Internet appliance, broadband set top box and digital TV manufacturers in the U. S., Europe and Asia including AOLTV, Acer, Fujitsu Siemens, Sony, Celerity, Legend Group, Trinexus, Ch.1, Stellar One, iDVD and Metabyte Networks among others.
　　

The company is managed by Kenny Liu, Chairman and CEO, Jack Guedj, president, Michael Hoberg, VP of finance and CFO, J.C. Kuo, co-founder and CTO, Yee Wong, VP of operations, James Tao, VP of business development, and Bo Liu, VP of software development. Tvia further strengthened its management team with the addition of Vahe Akay as VP of marketing, formally VP of marketing and sales with Hyundai Digital Media/Odeum Microsystems, and Johnson Yan as VP of hardware development, formally general manager at Oak Technologies.
　　

Tvia is a worldwide organization headquartered in the USA, with an R&D subsidiary in China, technical support center in Holland, and a sales and customer support office in Taiwan.
　　

In August 2000, Tvia added three influential leaders from the television and broadband industries creating an Industry Advisory Board (IAB) to lend their individual expertise in creating new strategies to guide Tvia in its product and market development and strategic alliances. Members of the IAB include: Mitchell Berman, former senior VP at OpenTv Corp.; Rick Friedland, currently on the board of several public and private companies and formerly the chairman and CEO of General Instruments, and; Mark Manigiola, president of @Home Solutions, a division of Excite@Home.
　

About Tvia Inc.

Tvia, Inc designs, develops and markets streaming media processors for Internet enabled devices , set top boxes and digital television. The company has worldwide operations, including Holland, China and Taiwan, employing more than 150 hardware and software product development engineers. Tvia is changing the way interactive content is displayed in the home and has secured major design wins with OEMs worldwide in all of its three target markets. For more information visit www.tvia.com.　
　

Information in this release that involves Tvia's expectations, beliefs, hopes, plans, intentions or strategies regarding the future are forward-looking statements that involve risks and uncertainties. Forward looking statements in this press release include statements as to Tvia's ability to capitalize on emerging markets. All forward-looking statements included in this press release are based upon information available to Tvia as of the date of this release, and Tvia assumes no obligation to update any such forward-looking statements. These statements are not guarantees of future performance, and actual results could differ materially from out current expectations. Factors that could cause or contribute to such differences or risks associated with our business are discussed in the Company's Form 10-Q for the quarter ended September 30, 2000 filed with the Securities and Exchange Commission (``SEC'') on November 14, 2000, and in other reports filed from time to time with the SEC. These risks include, but are not limited to, fluctuations in the volume of product sales and operating results.