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Motorola Marks Milestone With Production of 50 Millionth Applications Processor
i.MX Family Of Microprocessors Offers Innovative Portable Devices The Ultimate Combination Of Performance With Stamina
AUSTIN, Texas, September 16, 2003 - Motorola Inc. (NYSE:MOT), a global leader in integrated communications, today celebrated the production of its 50 millionth applications processor for portable multimedia devices. The company's Semiconductor Products Sector has manufactured applications processors for handheld devices since 1995. The company continues to lead the mobile device market with its family of processors with market-leading customers that include Palm, Sony, and Handspring as well as innovative companies like Tapwave and Garmin.
Motorola's i.MX21 processor, the most recent addition to the i.MX family that combines sophisticated video, display, connectivity and security features for mobile multimedia devices was unveiled today in a separate announcement.
The advanced i.MX family represents a quantum leap in performance in an unprecedented low power system design, offering the advantages of "smart speed" technology. For example, the i.MXL processor personal digital assistant (PDA) is engineered to enable more than six hours of movie play time using a 1000m AH battery, and offers a standby time of between 50 to 70 days.
"The i.MX family is Motorola's sixth-generation applications processor in eight years. As a company that has both wireless and semiconductor expertise, we have been charting the course with our rich portfolio of applications processors, pushing wireless performance limits from simple to ever more complex multimedia applications," said Franz Fink, vice president and general manager, Wireless and Mobile Systems Group, Motorola Semiconductor Products Sector. "With i.MX, we have achieved the ultimate combination - performance and endurance. The chip is designed to support a broad range of demanding applications in the mobile environment with improved battery life."
Motorola's i.MX family of processors are based on ARM9® core technology and are designed to provide developers with a comprehensive platform solution. i.MX processors feature an integrated suite of software and reference designs that accelerates the creation of next-generation mobile communications products. As part of Motorola's Innovative Convergence™ portfolio, the i.MX family allows manufacturers to develop cost-effective, wireless-enabled, smart handhelds with a wide range of capabilities, such as digital image capture, file sharing, wireless connectivity, m-commerce using smartcards, multimedia entertainment and more - with a small number of components, long battery life, and extra performance for additional applications and features.
Milestones and Hallmark of Standards
Combining the support of a suite of software and reference designs, the i.MX and the DragonBall™ name are synonymous with industry-leading handheld wireless products. In addition to recognition from customers, it has also won prestigious awards from the industry and many industry firsts and bests.
- 1995 - Motorola supported Palm to build and launch the world's first PDA. The DragonBall processor was the original processor used in Palm PDAs and received the EDN Asia 1st Component Design Award
- 1996 - Received the Federation of Hong Kong Industries Consumer Product Design Awards
- 1998 - Red Dragon (DragonBall EZ processor), its second generation member won the organizer award in Consumer Product Design in the Hong Kong Awards of Industry
- 1999 - Launched DragonBall VZ processor, which doubled the performance of any system using a 16 MHz DragonBall processor and added color LCD support to the family's feature-set
- 2001 - Reached the 30 Million applications processors shipped milestone
- 2001 June - Launched MX1, the first ARM® core-based DragonBall product with speeds up to 200MHz. It is also the first on-chip Bluetooth® ready applications processor announced from a major worldwide semiconductor company.
- 2002 - The i.250 Innovative Convergence platform with the i.MX processor won the Hong Kong Award for Industry - Technological Achievement.
- 2002 - i.MX1 was the first processor meeting certification standards for the Palm OS 5 platform.
2002 - Garmin International chose i.MXL for its family of GPS-enabled products.
- 2003 - Moving to speed the development of next-generation 2.5G and 3G smart phones, i.MX1 microprocessor was ported to all versions of the Symbian operating system. (OS)
- 2003 - The i.MX processor, combined with the latest versions of Windows CE™.NET, offers developers a rich array of integrated multimedia and communications features, requiring short development time.
- 2003 - Tapwave, Inc, selected i.MX for its new category of handheld products.
- 2003 - i.MX21 processor announced with sophisticated video, display, connectivity and security features for mobile devices
About DragonBall/i.MX
The i.MX family builds on the best-selling DragonBall family of applications processors and is designed to quickly integrate applications into existing or new designs for rich featured, cost-effective, multimedia-based solutions.
Features such as multimedia support and wireless Internet connectivity consume significant battery power, leading to less productivity and entertainment time and more time spent recharging batteries. With Motorla's Smart Speed technology, the low power consumption of the i.MX processors is designed to provide wireless device users with extended run times as a result of an advanced power management architecture and deliver high performance applications.
Design and manufacturing techniques used in i.MX processors, such as system bus architecture and "doze" and "sleep" modes, translate to less power consumption even for advanced PDA applications. In addition, other integrated features of the i.MX processors, such as the multimedia extensions and video port, help enable original design manufacturers (ODMs) and original equipment manufacturers (OEMs) to use fewer components in their wireless devices, thus reducing system costs. For more information, visit http://www.motorola.com/imx.
About Motorola's Semiconductor Products Sector
As the world's #1 producer of embedded processors, Motorola's Semiconductor Products Sector creates DigitalDNA™ 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 http://www.motorola.com/semiconductors.
About Motorola
Motorola, Inc. (NYSE:MOT) is a global leader in wireless, automotive and broadband communications. Sales in 2002 were $27.3 billion. Motorola is a global corporate citizen dedicated to ethical business practices and pioneering important innovations that make things smarter and life better, honored traditions that began when the company was founded 75 years ago this year. Sales of Motorola China in 2002 were $5.7billion. For more information, please visit: www.motorola.com.cn
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