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ST's Nomadik Processors, Coupled with Nokia Series 60 Platform, Speed Time-to-Market
ESPOO, Finland and GENEVA, Sept. 28 -- Nokia (NYSE: NOK - News) and STMicroelectronics
(NYSE: STM - News) today announced that they have expanded their cooperation into
the area of Series 60 product creation. ST's Nomadik family of multimedia application
processors for 3G mobile devices have been adapted and optimized to support the
Nokia Series 60 Platform, enabling faster handset development for Series 60 licensees.
ST will demonstrate the Series 60 Platform on the Nomadik processors at the CDMA
Americas Congress at the Miami Beach Convention Center on September 28-30. The
demonstration will showcase a Nomadik Development Kit built on the STn8800 (Nomadik)
processor running on the Series 60 Platform. The solution will be available for
Series 60 handset manufacturers before the end of 2004.
"We are very pleased to welcome STMicroelectronics to the Series 60 Product Creation
Community. The commitment of silicon vendors will facilitate the acceptance of
the Series 60 Platform across the industry," says Antti Vasara, Vice President,
Nokia Technology Marketing and Sales. "Series 60 brings a feature rich software
platform and multi-vendor economies of scale to the smartphone market, while ST's
Nomadik platform family brings the essential requirements of low cost, low power,
and high performance."
"The Series 60 Platform with ST's ultra-low-power Nomadik multimedia application
processors will accelerate market acceptance of innovative third-generation (3G)
handheld communication products and personal digital assistants (PDAs)," says
Guy Lauvergeon, General Manager of STMicroelectronics' Multimedia Platform Unit.
"It also represents a new level of cooperation between ST and Nokia."
The Nomadik open multimedia platform, winner of the Microprocessor Report's 2004
Best Application Processor of the Year Award, enables portable terminals, like
mobile phones and PDAs, to play music, take pictures, record video, and host two-way
video communications in real time. Based on an innovative architecture built around
smart accelerators, Nomadik chips deliver best-in-class, 30-frames-per-second
video images while minimizing power consumption and cost.
The Nomadik's interface to leading open-market wireless modems, along with its
capability to run the Symbian operating system (Symbian OS), make for fast and
complete integration with the Series 60 Platform. For its part, the Series 60
Platform serves as a complete smartphone software package that is a reliable software
base that designers can customize to their own hardware designs. The platform
is designed with standardization in mind while maintaining a high degree of flexibility.
The Series 60 Platform, built on the Symbian OS, is the world's leading smartphone
platform. It is licensed by some of the foremost mobile phone manufacturers, including
LG Electronics, Lenovo, Nokia, Panasonic, Samsung, Sendo, and Siemens. Support
for the large color screen, easy-to-use interface, and extensive suite of applications
make this software platform ideally suited to support new mobile services, such
as rich content downloading and MMS.
About Nokia
Nokia is the world leader in mobile communications, driving the growth and sustainability
of the broader mobility industry. Nokia is dedicated to enhancing people's lives
and productivity by providing easy-to-use and secure products like mobile phones,
and solutions for imaging, games, media, mobile network operators and businesses.
Nokia is a broadly held company with listings on five major exchanges. http://www.nokia.com
About STMicroelectronics
STMicroelectronics is a global leader in developing and delivering semiconductor
solutions across the spectrum of microelectronics applications. An unrivalled
combination of silicon and system expertise, manufacturing strength, Intellectual
Property (IP) portfolio and strategic partners positions the Company at the forefront
of System-on-Chip (SoC) technology and its products play a key role in enabling
today's convergence markets. The Company's shares are traded on the New York Stock
Exchange, on Euronext Paris and on the Milan Stock Exchange (Borsa Italiana).
In 2003, the Company's net revenues were $7.24 billion and net earnings were $253
million. Further information on ST can be found at http://www.st.com.
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