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To: slacker711 who wrote (19652)	2/28/2002 9:09:07 AM
From: slacker711	Read Replies (4) \| Respond to of 197253

It sounds like Matsushita and NEC are announcing completion of a W-CDMA chipset.... nec.co.jp ***For immediate use February 28th, 2002 Matsushita (Panasonic) and NEC Announce Progress in their Joint Activities Establishing a Joint Development Base for 3G Mobile Handset Business -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- TOKYO, Japan - NEC Corporation (NEC), Matsushita Electric Industrial Co., Ltd. (MEI) and Matsushita Communication Industrial Co., Ltd. (MCI) today announced their progress on the joint development of a platform for third generation (3G) mobile handsets as well as its application software. In their first public statement since the firms formed a development alliance last August, Matsushita and NEC announced that they have completed the core architecture design which will be used in the 3G mobile handset platform. This architecture will be used in future NEC and Matsushita 3G mobile handsets, and may be licensed to other companies that are interested in using the same platform. Furthermore, Matsushita and NEC have started software developmental activities by establishing a joint development office in Yokohama, named '3G Mobile Collaboration Office' that aims to speed up product development. With these two announcements, Matsushita and NEC have completed the first step in advancing their global strategy for 3G mobile handsets. Both companies will continue to implement a global business development alliance in such areas as technical standardization, development of core technology and software, and product assessment in the mobile handset field. Outline of the progress report is as follows: Joint Development Activities Core Architecture/Interface: This core architecture employs a 2-CPU method that separates the communication function for W-CDMA bandwidth and application function into two independent functional blocks. Matsushita and NEC jointly decided on the common design of the interface between the communication CPU (based on Matsushita and NEC core technology) and application CPU. The main benefits of the core architecture are: · Development is simplified With a 2-CPU configuration, development of the A-CPU and C-CPU software can be done independently, large scale of software can be revised more easily and concurrent development with other software is made possible. · Vendors can freely add on their own application functions The common design of the interface enables vendors to design and freely create their own applications to be combined with the communication CPU. Architecture Usage Both companies will carry out detailed designing and planning to use the core architecture in their 3G mobile handsets, which will tentatively be introduced into the market in the latter half of fiscal year ending March 2003.** Also, the platform which includes all development based on this core architecture may be licensed to handset makers, application software development vendors and semiconductor vendors. LSI supporting this architecture In regards to System LSI, which realizes this core architecture, both companies have been in development with various semiconductor makers as well as their respected semiconductor divisions. [Messages from other partner companies] (Alphabetical Order) "Agere Systems is pleased to support such an important step forward in the mobile communications industry. We already have a successful history with NEC and only last year they chose our GPRS technology platform for two new internet-enabled wireless handsets. Now we look forward to extending our relationship to include Matsushita and to providing a leading-edge semiconductor solution for the new 3G architecture." (Luc Seraphin, vice president and general manager, Agere Systems Wireless Mobile Solutions) "This success of development through collaboration of leading companies of the industry is greatly valuable to both end users and the industry in that this promotes activities to provide to end users, emerging, sophisticated, and large-scale system such as 3G timely. AKM is committed to support the development of 3G market by developing high precision analog/mixed signal products which meet system manufactures' requirements." (Makoto Konosu, President and CEO, Asahi Kasei Microsystems, Co., Ltd.) "We are convinced this architecture will become the standard platform for future mobile phone industry. ROHM will make the best efforts to develop a core communications LSI incorporating the architecture. (Junichi Hikita, Managing Director, ROHM Co,. Ltd.) "TI is pleased to support NEC and MCI's 3G mobile handset platform," said Alain Mutricy, TI Vice President and general manager for TI's OMAP Platform. "We are happy that NEC and MCI have chosen TI's high-performance, low-power OMAP processors to drive their jointly-developed solution. We expect that the new base architecture running on TI's OMAP processors will accelerate 3G wireless market growth."