For Immediate Release (Calgary, AB Canada)
November 16, 1999

ZiLOG Inc. and Zi Corporation announce cooperation to deliver Chinese language to M@ilTV™

Calgary, AB and Campbell, CA (Nov. 16, 1999) — ZiLOG Inc. (formerly ZLG on the NYSE) and Zi Corporation (TSE: ZIC; NASDAQ: ZICA) today announced an agreement to provide Chinese language to M@ilTV™, an innovative communications system that delivers email capability via television.  As part of the agreement, Zi Corporation has licensed its eZiTEXT™ intuitive language processing software to ZiLOG and will adapt it for use with M@ilTV.  The licensing agreement covers the use of eZiTEXT in both Chinese and English.

“The eZiTEXT input system provides intuitive text entry and excellent language processing capabilities,” said Aydin Koc, senior vice president and general manager of the Home Entertainment Group at ZiLOG Inc.  “M@ilTV is designed to be extremely easy to use in any geography.  Our objective is to ensure this simplicity and intuitive operation in countries with symbolic character languages.  eZiTEXT will allow ZiLOG to bring the powerful capabilities of M@ilTV to large populations around the world in a natural manner.”

The eZiTEXT software allows M@ilTV users to quickly and easily enter Chinese characters with a limited set of basic strokes.  This considerably simplifies the text-entry interface and duplicates the user experience in other routine writing activities.  The input system predicts most words before all letters are entered, additionally improving text entry speed, especially when using a remote control.  Enabling text entry on a remote control allows the user to operate technology in any location and eliminates the need to use a keyboard for text entry.  Zi Corporation currently offers eZiTEXT in 13 alphabetical languages and three ideographic languages.

“M@ilTV is scheduled for launch in China in the first quarter of 2000,” said Antoine Blondeau, senior vice president, Sales and Marketing for Zi Corporation.  “This agreement allows Zi to expand the types of devices our product is embedded in and can allow our product to reach a much broader cross section of the population in China.”
M@ilTV is an innovative, cost-effective communications system, jointly marketed worldwide by ZiLOG Inc. and World CallNET, Inc., that allows television sets to communicate with the Internet.  M@ilTV gives consumers full email capability and value-added applications such as text-based Internet access, information and e-commerce through their television sets.  Consumers navigate and create email using a television remote control or an optional wireless keyboard.  M@ilTV connects to the Internet using an existing telephone line without the use of a second line, and customer installation is as simple as connecting the television into the telephone socket.  Alternatively, M@ilTV capability can be added to an existing TV set through a low-cost external module.

Zi Corporation is a software company making modern electronic technology more accessible to people in a way that is consistent with their language and culture.  The company’s eZiTEXT input software is licensed in several languages for devices ranging from mobile phones to TV set-top boxes.  Zi’s common shares trade on both the Toronto Stock Exchange (ZIC) and the NASDAQ stock market (ZICA). Zi markets its technology through strategic partnerships worldwide from offices in Beijing, Hong Kong, Calgary, San Francisco and Stockholm.

ZiLOG is a leading global design solutions company specializing in embedded and integrated circuits for the data communications, home entertainment and integrated controls markets.  Headquartered in Campbell, Calif., ZiLOG employs an estimated 1,300 people worldwide.  It announced 1998 revenues of $204.7 million.  Texas Pacific Group and its affiliates, a $2.5 billion private investment partnership, own a majority interest in ZiLOG.  ZiLOG maintains design centers in Campbell, Calif., Austin, Texas, Nampa, Idaho, Seattle, Wash., and Bangalore, India, and a worldwide customer service center in Austin, advanced manufacturing in Nampa and test operations in Manila, Philippines.  It has 27 direct sales offices and more than 120 distributor locations worldwide.  www.zilog.com

Certain statements in this press release constitute “forward-looking statements” within the meaning of the Private Securities Litigation Reform Act of 1995 including, without limitation, statements concerning the anticipated benefits to Zi Corporation of its agreement with the licensee (the “Licensee”) described herein.  The expected inclusion of Zi input technology in products developed by the Licensee and potential revenue therefrom involve risks, uncertainties and other factors which may cause the actual results, performance or achievements of Zi Corporation to be materially different from any future results, performance or achievements expressed or implied by such forward-looking statements.  Such factors include uncertainties in the ability to successfully collaborate with the Licensee; the ability of Zi Corporation to successfully design, develop, and deliver any application that complies with the Licensee’s specifications and is accepted by the Licensee; the ability of Zi Corporation to successfully meet specific delivery dates set forth by the Licensee; the ability of Zi Corporation to successfully integrate and maintain compatibility with the licensee’s technology; possible failure to continue to be selected as the text input enabling technology by the Licensee; the ability of the Licensee to successfully market and distribute any of its products incorporating Zi technology; economic conditions in Asia; the risks of doing business in foreign countries including China; and the risks and uncertainties referred to in Zi Corporation’s  Form 20-F for the most recent calendar year end as filed with the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission.  There can be no assurance that Zi Corporation will achieve commercial success through the agreement described herein.

M@ilTV is a registered trademark of World CallNET, Inc. ZiLOG is a registered trademark of ZiLOG Inc.  eZiTEXT is a registered trademark of Zi Corporation.  All other company and product names may be trademarks of the respective companies with which they are associated.

Kimberly Malanczuk    
ZiLOG Inc.      
Sr. Manager, Public Relations   
Phone:  408-558-8381    
Email: mailto:kmalanczuk@zilog.com   
Web site: www.zilog.com

Karen Attwell
Zi Corporation
Manager, Investor/Media Relations
Phone:  (403) 233-8875
Email: mailto:investor@zicorp.com
Web site: www.zicorp.com