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EASTERN Telecom Speeds to Market with Motorola's Innovative ConvergenceTM Platform
Korean Device Manufacturer Moves Rapidly From Concept to Network-live Prototype Using Comprehensive Tools, Reference Design and Expertise
AUSTIN, Texas - April 23, 2003 - EASTERN Telecom, one of Korea's most creative original device manufacturers (ODMs), became the latest company to adopt Motorola, Inc.'s (NYSE:MOT) Innovative ConvergenceTM platforms. EASTERN Telecom plans to rapidly develop its customers' advanced wireless handsets for delivery of voice and high-speed data services using the i.200 and i.250 platforms for 2G and 2.5G mobile devices.
"The Innovative Convergence platform provides us with a comprehensive set of tools and world class reference designs to enable us to help reduce our customers' development costs and time to market," said Chris Chung, president and chief executive officer of EASTERN Telecom. "Motorola's wireless and semiconductor experience has allowed us to move rapidly from concept to a live prototype on a carrier network with exceptional speed and flexibility. We believe the Innovative Convergence platforms will help us both expand our business offerings and broaden our portfolio of custom design services."
The advanced i.250 platform for GSM enhanced voice and GPRS voice and data cellular handsets and smartphones make it possible for EASTERN Telecom to offer a comprehensive product portfolio with GPRS rich-data features such as Wireless Application Protocol (WAP), Enhanced Messaging Service (EMS), and Multimedia Messaging Service (MMS). In addition, Motorola's i.250 platform is designed to enable EASTERN Telecom to decrease time to market and reduce systems costs through a lower component count.
"Today's announcement with EASTERN Telecom shows how the Innovative Convergence platforms continue to win market share among savvy ODMs worldwide," said Pete Shinyeda, corporate vice president and general manager of Motorola's Wireless and Broadband Systems Group. "Motorola is redefining the way designers bring mobile devices to market. We are forging a de facto industry standard that offers our customers a fast track to creating smaller, more cost-effective wireless communications products with advanced 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 EASTERN Telecom 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 voice-centric platform, the i.250 GPRS voice/data platform, and i.300 UMTS wireless platforms; the i.MX family of applications processors to drive multimedia applications; an industry-leading i.JV J2METM reference implementation engineered to offer wireless device designers with up-to-date software for quick integration of JavaTM applications; and image capture technology to enable imaging and real-time video.
The Innovative Convergence platform is designed to expedite handset development and manufacturing process by organizing the tools and pieces of the solution into three major development environments. These environments include:
- Integrated Development Environment (IDE) - 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 (RTE) - includes tools for configuring features, testing and fine-tuning radio performance.
- Manufacturing Test Environment (MTE) - 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's Semiconductor Products Sector
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 $5.0 billion (USD) in 2002. For more information please visit www.motorola.com/semiconductors
About Motorola
As the world's #1 producer of embedded processors, Motorola's Semiconductor Products Sector creates DigitalDNA(tm) 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
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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