Intel Investors - Intel's StrongARM CPU gets 3G PHONE Support from Access Limited.
Support for Intel's StrongARM CPU as a building block for third generation (3G) mobile phones keeps increasing.
Paul
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biz.yahoo.com
Monday July 17, 11:04 am Eastern Time
Company Press Release
ACCESS Debuts Internet Wireless Phone Solution For Intel's StrongARM Processor Development Platform At Wireless Japan Show in Tokyo, Japan
ACCESS Leverages i-mode Technology for Intel Platform
MILPITAS, Calif./TOKYO--(BUSINESS WIRE)--July 17, 2000-- ACCESS Co., Ltd, a leading provider of embedded Internet software solutions, announced today that a powerful solution for developers building next-generation wireless phones using Intel's StrongARM® processor Development Platform and ACCESS' software solutions will be demonstrated at Intel's booth at the Wireless Japan show, in Tokyo, July 17-19, 2000. The demonstration will feature ACCESS' micro-More, micro-ITRON compliant Real Time Operating System (RTOS) and ACCESS' Compact NetFront micro-browser, proven in NTT DoCoMo's i-mode phones, offering advanced Internet features for mobile and wireless embedded applications.
``ACCESS is pleased to announce support for the next-generation wireless phone platform based on Intel's StrongARM processor,'' said Toru Arakawa, CEO of ACCESS. ``The combination of ACCESS' micro-More Real Time Operating System, Compact NetFront browser, and Intel's StrongARM processor will be a perfect solution for 3rd generation wireless terminals, which will be deployed commercially from 2001. As the bandwidth grows the requirements on handset side also will grow, but the key is the realization of high performance under low-power consumption. In this respect, we expect the next-generation StrongARM processor to be the best choice.''
``ACCESS technology is indicative of the future of wireless, and is precisely the type of application we envisioned for 3rd Generation handsets and wireless communicators. The ACCESS technology highlights Intel's focus on next-generation wireless applications that will enrich the experience of the user,'' said Mark D. Casey, marketing director for Intel's Handheld Computing Division. ``With high performance Internet browsing, delivered directly to advanced digital wireless handhelds powered by the Intel® StrongARM microarchitecture, we are enabling new applications to make users more productive and better informed.''
Based on Popular Compact NetFront Micro-Browser
ACCESS' Compact NetFront micro-browser is the industry's first and the most popular micro-browser based on the Compact-HTML standard, which is used in NTT DoCoMo's i-mode, the world's most successful wireless Internet service. ACCESS' technology acts as an application platform -- it has been designed in such a way that core functionality can be leveraged for multiple applications such as email and traditional Web browsing. Within 300KB ROM and 150KB RAM, the browser supports almost all major functionalities in HTML 4.0 including bookmark, GIF, and animation GIF, and it is designed from scratch for the resource limited environments of mobile and wireless devices.
In addition, Compact NetFront supports specific extensions for wireless, such as ``accesskey'' where the user can navigate using the numeric key pad. Developers can extend the feature by plugging-in ACCESS' JV-Lite2 Sun authorized Java(TM) virtual machine module, for Java applications, and AVE-SSL, ACCESS' cryptographic module, for m-commerce applications.
For next-generation applications, ACCESS is developing plug-in modules such as MPEG-4 player, MP3 player, Bluetooth protocol, and wireless-TCP/IP transport middleware components today.
ACCESS - Behind the Standards Push
ACCESS' contribution to the i-mode wireless Internet service is not limited to providing browsers. ACCESS has been the main driving force for proposing the Compact-HTML standard to W3C with five major consumer electronics companies. ACCESS, Fujitsu, Matsushita, Mitsubishi, NEC and SONY jointly submitted Compact HTML to the W3C (World Wide Web Consortium; HTML 4.0 subset, W3C Note Feb-09-1998). ACCESS has been, and will continue to be, an active participant in the W3C mobile working group to standardize xHTML(TM) Basic, next generation mark-up language for mobile/wireless, and will be introducing Compact NetFront for 3G as the standard becomes settled.
Background on Wireless Phone Industry
The wireless phone market has been growing at an astounding pace, and according to Dataquest of Gartner Group, the total shipment of wireless phones in the year 2000 will exceed 400 million units. The wireless phone market has been moving towards enabling Internet and m-commerce -- internet-like browser-based services.
In Japan, NTT DoCoMo's i-mode popularity cuts across age, gender, and class lines, appealing to the student, businessperson, and homemaker alike. This quarter, a mere 15 months after launching the service, the company passed the 7 million-subscriber mark, which makes NTT DoCoMo Japan's largest Internet service provider.
In next generation IMT-2000 services, NTT DoCoMo will adopt WCDMA technology, which will enable them to transfer the data at a stunning 2Mbps, 200 times of current i-mode service infrastructure. With 3G wireless, it is no overstatement to say that most of today's PC-based technology will be migrating to mobile and wireless, and multimedia applications and services such as Electronic Music Distribution, Video/graphic communications, and Java applets will become a standard. The key factors in enabling such technologies -- CPU processing power as well as power efficiency -- need to be improved dramatically. Identifying the ideal trade-offs between computing power and power consumption is one of the biggest challenges that the handset manufacturers are facing today.
The first implementation of ``Compact NetFront on StrongARM processor'' will be demonstrated in Intel's booth at the Wireless Japan Show, in Tokyo, July 17-19, 2000.
About ACCESS
ACCESS is a leading provider of innovative embedded software solutions for Internet Appliances. The company's embedded browser software powers over 70 different commercial products worldwide including: i-mode phones for NTT DoCoMo; Sega Dreamcast(TM) and Nitendo64 video game consoles; Internet TVs from Sharp and Mitsubishi; the Mulco(TM) set top box from NEC; integrated word processors from Casio, Fujitsu, NEC and Sharp; personal digital assistants from Casio, Fujitsu, NEC, Panasonic and Sharp; and car navigation systems from Alpine. Over 10 million commercial software licenses have been shipped from more than 30 major consumer appliance manufacturers. More information is available at access-us-inc.com.
Note to Editors: JV-Lite is a trademark and NetFront is a registered trademark of ACCESS Co. Ltd. in Japan. StrongARM and Intel are registered trademarks of Intel Corporation. Sun and Java are trademarks or registered trademarks of Sun Microsystems, Inc. All other brands or products are the trademarks or registered trademarks of their respective owners.
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Contact:
ACCESS Systems America
Joe Leung, 408/945-6500 ext. 101
jleung@access-us-inc.com
or
ACCESS Co., Ltd., Tokyo
Mari Chuganji, (03)-3233-0200
adinfo@access.co.jp
or
New Ideas in Communications
Paula Jones, 650/967-3711
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