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Elcoteq Selects Motorola's Innovative ConvergenceTM Platforms
Europe's Largest EMS Adopts Motorola's 2G and 2.5G Wireless Platforms for Developing Mobile Handsets
CANNES, France - February 17, 2003 - Elcoteq, Europe's largest electronic manufacturing services (EMS) company, is the 12th company to adopt Motorola, Inc.'s (NYSE:MOT) Innovative ConvergenceTM platforms. Elcoteq plans to use Motorola's i.200 and i.250 platforms to develop its customers' advanced wireless handsets for delivery of voice and high-speed data services.
"The Innovative Convergence platform is designed to enable us to reduce our customers' development costs and time to market," said Christer Härkönen, senior vice president of Elcoteq's Business Area Terminal Products. "Motorola's unparalleled wireless and semiconductor experience is assurance that we are utilizing the industry's most comprehensive development platforms and is a good complement to our design services and manufacturing expertise. We believe the Innovative Convergence platforms will help us in realizing the expansion of our business model to offering customers complete design services."
The advanced i.200 and the i.250 platforms for GSM (global system for mobile communication) enhanced voice and GPRS (general packet radio service) voice and data cellular handsets and smartphones make it possible for Elcoteq to offer a comprehensive product portfolio, ranging from the voice centric applications of the i.200 platform to the GPRS rich-data features of the i.250 platform such as wireless application protocol, enhanced messaging service, and multimedia messaging service. In addition, Motorola's i.200 and i.250 platforms are designed to enable Elcoteq to decrease time to market and reduce systems costs through a lower component count.
"Today's announcement with Elcoteq demonstrates growing momentum for the Innovative Convergence platform," said Pete Shinyeda, corporate vice president and general manager of Motorola's Wireless and Broadband Systems Group. "Motorola is redefining the wireless chipset industry and forging a de facto industry standard that offers designers and manufacturers one-stop shopping to create smaller, more cost-effective wireless communications products with advanced battery power performance and the latest feature sets."
Innovative Convergence platforms feature a highly integrated chipset, comprehensive reference designs, field-proven GSM and GSM/GPRS software and development tools, as well as test environments and services. This comprehensive system approach helps customers such as Elcoteq focus their resources on product differentiation and customizing handset features to fulfill their customers' requirements.
About Motorola's Innovative Convergence Solutions
Motorola offers a portfolio of Innovative Convergence platforms and products to help customers quickly address the converging mobile computing and wireless communications markets. The portfolio includes: the i.200, i.250 and i.300 wireless platforms; the i.MX family of applications processors to drive multimedia applications; an industry-leading i.JV J2METM reference implementation that provides wireless device designers with up-to-date software for quick integration of JavaTM applications; i..IM image capture technology to enable imaging and real-time video; and i.BT BluetoothTM solutions engineered to deliver high-quality applications enabled by Bluetooth technology.
The Innovative Convergence platform is designed to expedite handset development and manufacturing by organizing the tools and pieces of the solution into three major development environments. These environments include:
- Integrated Development Environment - features a comprehensive hardware and software environment, integrating the advanced GSM/GPRS chipset, handset reference design, field-proven GSM/GPRS software engine and user interface toolkit, and an application development system
- Radio Test Environment - includes tools for configuring features, testing and fine-tuning radio performance
- Manufacturing Test Environment - provides software and manufacturing adaptation tools and services so a customer may decrease manufacturing set-up time by quickly ramping up a production line
About Motorola Semiconductors
As the world's #1 producer of embedded processors, Motorola's Semiconductor Products Sector creates DigitalDNATM system-on-chip solutions for a connected world. Our strong focus on wireless communications and networking enables customers to develop smarter, simpler, safer and synchronized products for the person, work team, home and automobile. Motorola's worldwide semiconductor sales were $4.8 billion (USD) in 2002. For more information please visit www.motorola.com/semiconductors
About Motorola
Motorola, Inc. (NYSE:MOT) is a global leader in providing integrated communications and embedded electronic solutions. Sales in 2002 were $26.7 billion. Motorola is a global corporate citizen dedicated to ethical business practices and pioneering important technologies that make things smarter and life better for people, honored traditions that began when the company was founded 75 years ago this year. For more information, please visit: www.motorola.com
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