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News Release from: STMicroelectronics | Subject: Nomadik processors
Edited by the Electronicstalk Editorial
Team on 01 October 2004
Processors ride Nokia's Series 60
Platform
Nokia and STMicroelectronics have expanded their co-operation into the area of Series 60 product creation.
Nokia and STMicroelectronics have expanded their co-operation into the area of Series 60 product creation ST's Nomadik family of multimedia application processors for 3G mobile devices have been adapted and optimised to support the Nokia Series 60 Platform, enabling faster handset development for Series 60 licensees
This article was originally published on Electronicstalk on 8 Nov 2004 at 8.00am (UK)
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ST has been demonstrating the Series 60 Platform on the Nomadik processors this week at the CDMA Americas Congress at the Miami Beach Convention Centre.
The demonstration showcases a Nomadik Development Kit built on the STn8800 (Nomadik) processor running on the Series 60 Platform.
This solution will be available for Series 60 handset manufacturers before the end of 2004.
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"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 co-operation 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 minimising 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 customise to their own hardware designs.
The platform is designed with standardisation 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 colour 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.
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