Renesas Technology and Symbian Collaborate on 3G Mobile Phone Platform; Latest Symbian OS-Enabled Platform Provides Rapid Deployment of 3G Handsets

Business Wire, Feb 14, 2005

TOKYO & CANNES, France -- Renesas Technology Corp. and Symbian Ltd. today announced an agreement to add full-scale support for Symbian OS(TM), the market leading open OS for smartphones, to Renesas Technology's advanced silicon platform for 3G mobile phones. Porting the popular Symbian OS to the Renesas mobile platform will enable handset manufacturers to create smaller and differentiated handsets to market while significantly reducing development time and costs of phones.

Renesas Technology together with NTT Docomo, Japan's largest mobile telecom company is currently developing a single-chip LSI that combines a dual-mode (GSM/GPRS and W-CDMA) 3G baseband processor and an application processor for improved multimedia performance that is required in next generation 3G handsets. The platform will also incorporate a modem function such as an RF front-end IC and RF power amplifier, and software such as a protocol stack, middleware, drivers and Symbian OS.

"By making the most of Renesas Technology and Symbian's expertise in smartphone technology, Renesas will further accelerate the proliferation of Renesas Technology's highly integrated, market-ready mobile platform into the 3G market," Ikuya Kawasaki, deputy general manager of system solution business unit 2 at Renesas Technology Corp.

"The Renesas Technology 3G mobile platform will enable Symbian OS licensees to develop an even wider variety of smaller, differentiated, competitively priced Symbian OS phones that meet the specific needs of their network operator customers and help bring Symbian OS further into the mass market," said Morgan Gillis, executive vice president, Symbian.

Symbian OS powers the world's most popular smartphones. Almost 20 million Symbian OS mobile phones have been sold worldwide making it the most widely adopted open standards based operating systems in the market.

The 3G mobile platform will be available in the second quarter of 2006, as will production quantities of Renesas Technology's dual-mode single chip LSI.

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About Renesas Technology Corp.

Renesas Technology Corp. designs and manufactures highly integrated semiconductor system solutions for mobile, automotive and PC and Audio Visual markets. Established on April 1, 2003 as a joint venture between Hitachi, Ltd. (TSE:6501)(NYSE:HIT) and Mitsubishi Electric Corporation (TSE:6503) and headquartered in Tokyo, Japan, Renesas Technology is one of the largest semiconductor companies in the world and the number one microcontroller supplier globally. Besides microcontrollers, Renesas Technology offers system-on-chip devices, Smart Card ICs, mixed-signal products, flash memories, SRAMs and more.

www.renesas.com

About Symbian Ltd

Symbian is a software licensing company that develops and licenses Symbian OS, the global open industry standard operating system for advanced, data-enabled mobile phones.

Symbian licenses Symbian OS to the world's leading handset manufacturers. The following Symbian OS licensees have Symbian OS-based mobile phones in production and development: Arima, BenQ, Fujitsu, LG, Lenovo, Mitsubishi, Motorola, Nokia, Panasonic, Sendo, Sharp, Siemens, Samsung and Sony Ericsson. In 2003, over 6.67 million Symbian OS-based mobile phones were sold worldwide and almost 20 million have been sold to date.

Symbian has its headquarters in London, United Kingdom with offices in the United States, Europe and Asia (Bangalore, Beijing, Seoul and Tokyo). For further information about Symbian please see www.symbian.com or email press@symbian.com.

Visit Symbian at the 3GSM World Congress in Cannes, in hall 1, stand B11 from 14th - 18th February 2005.