Fujitsu Microelectronics Asia Pte Ltd

Fujitsu and Jurong Technologies collaborate to develop new range of WiMAX products

Singapore, Jun 03, 2008  — Fujitsu Microelectronics Asia Pte Ltd (FMAL) and Jurong Technologies industrial Corporation (Jurong Technologies) are pleased to announce that Jurong Technologies, through its subsidiary I-Sirius Pte Ltd, has selected Fujitsu as its WiMAX baseband SoC partner. I-Sirius will use Fujitsu’s Mobile WiMAX baseband SoC, which is fully compliant with IEEE802.16e-2005 standard, to develop WiMAX products such as embedded modules, USB dongles and Express cards.

Both companies will also collaborate on strategic product positioning to enhance market penetration of these products. The companies will showcase the latest WiMAX products from their collaboration at the Fujitsu booth (C6-1, Hall 2) during the 2008 WiMAX Expo, Taipei in Taipei Show Hall 2 to be held from 2nd to 6th June 2008.

“We are pleased to enter into this landmark collaboration with Fujitsu, a global leader in WiMAX technologies, as we are very impressed with their open technical policy, comprehensive hardware and software documentation, and competitive reference design pricing,” said Mr Cheang Chee Ming, President and Chief Executive Officer of Jurong Technologies. “Through this co-operation, we are confident of providing flexible first-class WiMAX products based on Fujitsu's WiMAX SoC.”

“Jurong Technologies is a world class global EMS/ODM company offering modules of various wireless technologies for mobile communication, with a track record of shipping more than 100M modules to customers worldwide. Fujitsu Microelectronics is glad to form-up a strategic alliance with Jurong Technologies, we are confident in bringing a high performance and competitive WiMAX product into the market. They are an outstanding partner in leading-edge WiMAX solutions.” said Andy Chang, Marketing Director of Fujitsu Microelectronics Asia Pte Ltd.

Fujitsu WiMAX Baseband SoC solution is a IEEE802.16e-2005, WiMAX Forum Wave2 (MiMO) profile compliant which supports Beamforming, Matrix A and Matrix B. Fujitsu has already field-tested these features with real BS through air interface, and is ready for the Wave 2 certification. Fujitsu’s mobile WiMAX SoC delivers high throughput which is close to the theoretical maximum achievable with MiMO.

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About Fujitsu Microelectronics Asia Pte Ltd

Fujitsu Microelectronics Asia Pte Ltd (FMAL) was established in 1986 to provide semiconductor sales and support solutions to customers in Southeast Asia, India and Oceania. FMAL offers a diverse array of application-oriented semiconductor products and solutions such as ASIC, ASSPs, microcontrollers / microprocessors (FR-V), System Memory (Flash Memory / FRAM / FCRAM) and System LSIs (DVD MPEG Source Decoders / MPEG –2 Encoders).

About Jurong Technologies Industrial Corporation

Established in 1986, Singapore Exchange Main Board-listed Jurong Technologies provides Electronics Manufacturing Services ("EMS") to Original Equipment Manufacturers ("OEMs") in the wireless communication, networking, PC peripherals and industrial sectors.

Leveraging on its core EMS capabilities, the Group is also moving up the value chain to become a full-fledged Original Design Manufacturer (“ODM”), with proprietary technologies in the design and manufacture of products for the wireless communication, healthcare and consumer electronic sectors.

Headquartered in Singapore, Jurong Technologies has a global manufacturing footprint with production facilities in Singapore, Malaysia (Nusajaya), China (Suzhou and Tianjin) and Brazil (Jaguariuna), as well as sales and marketing support offices in Singapore and the United States.

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