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The new Miles 5.0 sound System includes support for other 3D audio APIs as well as MP3 compression and an all-new digital sub-system. Miles also includes DLS-1 MIDI support, providing a host of advanced audio features for game developers.

``We've been looking forward to this event for a long time,'' explained Skip McIlvaine, Aureal's Manager of Developer Relations. ``Miles has been the de facto standard in advanced audio tools, and providing support for A3D simply puts it over the top.''

``Aureal's A3D has garnered the attention and support of the gaming community,'' said Mitch Soule, Manager of RAD Game Tools. ``We are happy to be able to add this capability to the Miles Sound System and provide wider access to A3D for the gaming industry.''

About A3D

Aureal A3D is an audio technology that enables an immersive audio experience by surrounding the listener with sounds in all three dimensions -- using ordinary headphones or two or more speakers. Aureal 3D is based on recreating all the hearing cues that allow us to perceive sounds in everyday life. Since people can hear sounds three dimensionally in the real world with only two ears, it must be possible to create sounds from two speakers that have the same effect.

Compaq Computer Corporation is featuring A3D on its complete new line of Presario desktop computers. Dell Computer Corporation also provides customers with A3D-enabled systems, as does Sony with its new line of VAIO desktop computers. Major soundboard vendors using A3D and/or Aureal's Vortex 3D audio chip include Diamond Multimedia, Turtle Reach and Xitel.

About Aureal

Aureal builds advanced audio semiconductor and software solutions that increase functionality and features for personal computers and consumer electronics devices. Aureal develops audio processing semiconductor chips and sound cards and also licenses technology designed to define and improve advanced audio standards in the marketplace.

For information on Aureal, its products, and its industry leading A3D audio technologies, please call Corporate Communications at 510-252-4582 or visit its Website at www.aureal.com.

Forward-looking statements in this release are made pursuant to the safe harbor provisions of the Private Securities Litigation Act of 1995. Investors are cautioned that such forward-looking statements involve risk and uncertainties, including, but not limited to, dependence on the PC and consumer electronics industries and on product lines based on new technologies; foundry capacity, availability and reliability; competition and pricing pressures; and other risks detailed from time to time in the company's periodic reports filed with the Securities and Exchange Commission.

NOTE: Aureal, the Aureal logo, Vortex and A3D are trademarks or registered trademarks of Aureal Semiconductor Inc. Other names may be trademarks of their respective owners. 

SOURCE: Aureal Semiconductor Inc.