COMMIT Releases its Leading MARS-II Chipset Solution Supporting TD-HSDPA/GSM/GPRS/EDGE

COMMIT Releases its Leading MARS-II Chipset Solution Supporting TD-HSDPA/GSM/GPRS/EDGE

October 18, 2007

    SHANGHAI, China, Oct. 18 /Xinhua-PRNewswire/ -- COMMIT
Inc., a leading TD-SCDMA chipset solution vendor, today
announced the release of its MARS-II chipset solution and
reference design supporting TD-HSDPA/GSM/GPRS/EDGE. This
solution can fully meet operators' requirements for
commercial TD-SCDMA deployment in terms of seamless
handover between TD-SCDMA and 2.5G communications, HSDPA,
high-end 3G applications and low power consumption.

    MARS-II solution coheres with COMMIT's long-term
experiences in TD-SCDMA core technology research, chipset
design, product development and field test. Combining its
partners' leading semiconductor technology and commercial
GSM/GPRS/EDGE solution, COMMIT's Mars-II solution can
support TD-HSDPA/GSM/GPRS/EDGE automatic roaming in idle
mode and voice/data handover in connection mode, up to
2Mbps HSDPA transmission, MBMS, embedded multimedia codec
for audio, video, image and enriching high-end 3G
applications such as video telephone, video streaming and
high speed internet browsing. The baseband chip of MARS-II
is produced in 90nm semiconductor process, which
significantly decreases power consumption and cost.
Meanwhile, the flexible, scalable and open platform allows
customers to develop differentiated products. 

    Based on MARS-II chipset, COMMIT also developed
evaluation platform, data card turnkey solution and
completed terminal solution. These products can
dramatically shorten the time-to-market for customers'
products.

    COMMIT solution has been tested and verified with all
infrastructure systems for a long-term. Mr. Jian Hu,
TD-SCDMA Product line Vice-General Manager of ZTE
Corporation, said, "COMMIT HSDPA solution has been
tested with ZTE network system both indoors and in the
field since the beginning of this year. COMMIT solution can
offer customers stable HSDPA data service. The most
outstanding advantage of HSDPA is efficiently increasing
the system capacity of data transmission and dramatically
enhancing the competitiveness of TD-SCDMA."

    Bird has adopted COMMIT solution to develop TD-SCDMA
terminal since 2004. Bird HSDPA handset based on COMMIT
solution, the only terminal tested and verified in the
TD-SCDMA industry, has already been extensively used for
testing by infrastructure vendors and operators. Mr.
Jiandong Zhao, Chief Engineer of NingBo Bird Co., Ltd.,
said, "COMMIT MARS chipset has characteristics such as
high-integrity, low-power consumption and stability, which
makes it the leading solution in TD-SCDMA industry. We
believe that TD-SCDMA terminals based on MARS-II solution
will be more competitive in the market. Bird and COMMIT
will further strengthen the cooperation to offer more
commercial TD-SCDMA terminals and fully meet operators'
demands."

    As of now, engineering samples and reference designs
are ready for customers to develop and test their products.
Some of the world's leading mobile handset OEMs, ODMs and
design houses have begun using MARS-II to design their
TD-SCDMA dual mode terminal products. These terminal
products will be launched to the market gradually in the
first half of 2008 to meet the service requirements of the
coming Olympics games. At that time, end users will be able
to enjoy wonderful games through TD-SCDMA terminals based on
COMMIT solution.

    About COMMIT

    COMMIT Incorporated, established in February 2002,
consists of 17 famous and respected industrial enterprises,
including China PUTIAN Corporation, China Academy of
Telecommunications Technology (CATT), Texas Instruments
(China), Nokia (China) Investment Co. Limited, LG
Electronics, Inc., and Hyper Market International Limited.

    With the goal to create Chinese homegrown intellectual
properties, develop market-competitive products, satisfy
customers' requirements and promote TD-SCDMA industry,
COMMIT endeavors to be a worldwide leader in wireless
communication industry. 

    COMMIT provides TD-SCDMA/HSDPA/GSM/GPRS/EDGE dual mode
chipset and solutions including dual mode baseband chipset,
dual mode protocol stack software, dual mode handset
reference design and development tools.


    For more information, please contact:

     Susan Luo
     COMMIT Inc.
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