For Release: June 11, 2001
Altera Joins with Motorola for Development of "Beyond 3G" CDMA 1xEV-DV Network Solutions
HONG KONG, June 11, 2001 -- Motorola's (NYSE:MOT) Global Telecom Solutions Sector is teaming with Altera Corporation (NASDAQ:ALTR), for the design and development of Motorola's "Beyond 3G" CDMA2000 (Code Division Multiple Access) 1xEV-DV network solution.
Altera will be a preferred supplier of programmable logic devices for the development of Motorola's CDMA2000 1xEV-DV network. Altera will place dedicated technical resources at Motorola's Arlington Heights research labs to fully leverage the power of Altera's system-on-a-programmable-chip (SOPC) solutions.
Motorola's CDMA2000 1x EV-DV (data and voice) solution is designed to provide average data rate speeds of 1.2 megabits per second (Mbps) for mobile users with peak data speeds up to 5.2 Mbps. Altera's SOPC solutions allow for high-speed, parallel, signal processing that is required by this next generation wireless technology through Altera's innovative APEX architecture, which is anticipated to bring cost, performance and time to market advantages to Motorola. Currently, as many as 38 Altera APEX 20K devices power the CDMA2000 1x EV-DV network solution that will be demonstrated June 11-15 at the 3G World Congress in Hong Kong. A similar demonstration was exhibited at the Cellular Telecommunications Industry Association show in March in Las Vegas.
Motorola is the only network vendor to successfully demonstrate a 1xEV-DV solution.
The 1XTREME proposal is an extension of CDMA2000 1x technology with full backward compatibility to current networks. Motorola is installing CDMA2000 1x networks worldwide and offers network operators a migration evolution to 3G solutions with its CDMA2000 1xEV-DO (data only) and 1xEV-DV solutions.
"The relationship between supplier and buyer is becoming important in today's wireless communications market," said John Cipolla, vice president and general manager of Motorola's CDMA Systems Division. "Altera's SOPC solutions bring another innovative component to Motorola's beyond 3G network solutions which can improve network performance and time-to-market delivery," said Cipolla.
"Partnering with Motorola is further proof of our commitment to elevate our customer-supplier relationships to full partnership, leveraging our SOPC solutions," said John Daane, president and chief executive officer of Altera. "Our goal is to work hand in glove with Motorola in moving its products quickly and efficiently through proof of concept stages and into volume production," said Daane.
A 1,000-page specification proposal has been put forth to the 3GPP2 standards body under the name "1XTREME" by Motorola, Nokia, Texas Instruments, Philips Semiconductors and Altera. The 3GPP2 is reviewing various proposals to determine a baseline text for a standard on the data/voice applications to the third generation (3G) wireless network. Standardized specifications are expected to be approved this year.
About Motorola
Motorola, Inc. (NYSE:MOT) is a global leader in providing integrated communications solutions and embedded electronic solutions. Sales in 2000 were $37.6 billion. For more information, please visit http://www.motorola.com.
About Altera
Altera Corporation, The Programmable Solutions Company® was founded in 1983 and is a leading supplier of programmable logic devices (PLDs). Altera's CMOS-based PLDs are user-programmable semiconductor chips that enhance flexibility and reduce time-to-market for companies in the communications, computer peripheral and industrial markets. By using high performance devices, software development tools, and sophisticated intellectual property cores, system-on a programmable-chip (SOPC) solutions can be created with embedded processors, memory, and other complex logic together on a single PLD. Altera common stock is traded on the Nasdaq Stock Market under the symbol ALTR. More information on Altera is available on the Internet at http://www.altera.com.
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