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To: Bruce Byall who wrote (670)	1/21/2003 12:51:07 PM
From: Cy B	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 912

Spreadtrum licenses ARM7TDMI® arm.com SUNNYVALE, CALIF., and CAMBRIDGE, UK – Jan. 21, 2003 – Spreadtrum Communications Inc., and ARM [(LSE:ARM); (Nasdaq:ARMHY)], the industry's leading provider of 16/32-bit embedded RISC microprocessor technology, today announced that Spreadtrum has licensed the ARM7TDMI® microprocessor core. This agreement will enable Spreadtrum to provide its customers with innovative and power-efficient solutions for wireless applications such as mobile phones, personal digital assistants (PDAs) and other mobile devices. "ARM's advanced processor technology provides a strong foundation for Spreadtrum products such as our baseband ASIC SC6600 product and other software-based solutions. It enables us to implement our innovative system architecture design," says Dr. Ping Wu, president of Spreadtrum Communications. "By utilizing the industry-leading ARM7TDMI core, we can develop high performance, small die size, low-power consumption and very low-cost total system solutions that address the needs of wireless equipment manufacturers and mobile terminal vendors. We look forward to enhancing our integrated circuit solutions for next-generation wireless terminals with ARM's core technologies." Spreadtrum's SC6600 product is a highly integrated GSM/GPRS single baseband system containing all baseband digital signal processing, analog processing, power management, power amplifier controller and the peripheral circuitries. It is designed as a single chip solution in 0.18µm mixed-signal CMOS technology, with 180pin LFBGA package to achieve higher performance and lower system cost. "This agreement further demonstrates the industry's acceptance of the ARM® core as a de facto standard for wireless applications," said Oliver Gunasekara, director, Wireless, ARM. "Spreadtrum's decision to integrate the ARM architecture into its leading-edge wireless communication solution will enable them to provide a low-power single chip baseband solution." Spreadtrum is a novice and innovative total wireless solution company, not only providing baseband chipsets, but also software protocol stacks, and completed total wireless solutions for mobile devices. In addition, Spreadtrum offers a Microsoft® Windows® technology-based Software Development Platform (SDP) as well as sets of production tools to provide the maximum flexibility and fast time-to-market to customers. The ARM7TDMI core is a very small, high-performance and power-efficient 32-bit RISC processor. It includes the 16-bit Thumb® code compression extensions, advanced Embedded-ICE® on-chip debug and support for the ARM real-time embedded trace technology with the ETM7™ macrocell. The ARM7TDMI core is an ideal solution for ASIC integration.

To: Bruce Byall who wrote (670)	1/29/2003 6:00:00 PM
From: Bruce Byall	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 912

ARM Implements Platform Intelligence to Improve Productivity And Profitability of Enterprise Grid Tuesday January 28, 1:28 pm ET Platform's IT Analytics Solution Provides Visibility into Distributed Enterprise IT Assets BASINGSTOKE, England, Jan. 28 /PRNewswire/ -- Platform Computing Inc., today announced that ARM (Nasdaq: ARMHY - News; LSE: ARM - News), the industry's leading provider of 16/32-bit embedded RISC microprocessor solutions, has implemented Platform Intelligence(TM) and Platform LSF® to better align IT resources with business objectives. Optimising the performance of ARM's IT infrastructure, Platform Intelligence, an IT analytics solution, and Platform LSF, the foundation of Platform's Enterprise Grid solution, is being installed across up to 1200 CPUs at five design centres in the UK, France and the USA, and will integrate existing Sun Solaris systems and newer Linux systems into an Enterprise Grid. ADVERTISEMENT"With Platform Intelligence we have a detailed, enterprise-wide view of IT resource utilisation as it relates to individual projects, and therefore corporate objectives," said Ibrahim Chadirichi, IT Development Director, ARM. "Information technology is a critical part of our business, and a major proportion of our costs, therefore, we need to make informed decisions and optimise our IT resources to consistently finish on time, on budget and maintain our market leadership. Knowing how our infrastructure is performing over time will provide the vital information necessary to add new resources for new projects and maintain maximum efficiency and throughput within acceptable cost limits." The first 'IT Analytics' solution of its kind, Platform Intelligence combines business intelligence technology with a highly scalable adaptive agent framework to provide a solution for rapid decision-making. Going beyond traditional operational and system management tools, Platform Intelligence provides business-specific information that is correlated to expose the interdependent relationship between distributed IT assets and business objectives. Armed with this data, ARM is able to adopt a more flexible IT strategy to ensure consistent service delivery, effective capacity planning, and informed IT investments. "IT decision makers need to make informed planning decisions about technology investments, which requires in-depth insight into the computing environment," said Kieran Lees, managing director for Northern Europe, Platform. "With this solution, ARM can compare and contrast systems performance and utilisation in real-world situations over extended periods of time, and align these related IT services with the underlying business objectives for greater impact on corporate performance." With Platform Intelligence, companies can maximise enterprise resources across multiple locations to run hundreds of ongoing projects and manage a huge workload without unsustainable IT infrastructure expenditure. This solution will improve time to market for new products, enable more informed decisions on the purchase of new software and hardware, measure the return on investment from IT purchases against business objectives, and reduce ongoing expenditure on hardware and software licenses. About Platform Platform Computing provides distributed and Grid computing solutions that help enterprises effectively connect, measure, manage and optimise their enterprise resources. Platform's integrated desktop to Grid software solutions are used by over 1,500 customers worldwide in the financial services, government, life sciences and manufacturing industries to deliver higher quality products and services, improve business performance and maximise the return on IT investments. Founded in 1992, Platform has strategic relationships with Apple, Dell, HP, IBM, SAS and SGI, and the industry's broadest application integration support. For more information visit platform.com. Find Out More About How Platform Intelligence Helps You Run IT Like A Business On Thursday, January 30, 2003 18:00 GMT 13:00 EST, join Platform Computing, ARM, Cognos and Meta Analyst, Nick Gall, for a concise, 60-minute web seminar and learn how Fortune 1000 companies are using breakthrough IT Analytics approaches today to manage their IT infrastructure in distributed and grid environments the same way they manage their businesses. Visit platform.com to register.