Atmel's Secure Smart Card ICs Selected by Eastcom for CDMA USIM Card in China.Business Editors/High-Tech Writers ROUSSET, France--(BUSINESS WIRE)--June 3, 2002 Atmel(R) Corporation (Nasdaq:ATML ATML Automatic Test Markup Language ATML Automated Test Markup Language ), announced today that Zhuhai Eastcom Peace Smart Card Co. Ltd has selected the Atmel's secure smart card ICs as source for the development and deployment of the CDMA (Code Division Multiple Access) A method for transmitting simultaneous signals over a shared portion of the spectrum. The foremost application of CDMA is the digital cellular phone technology from QUALCOMM that operates in the 800 MHz band and 1.9 GHz PCS band. USIM usim - A Motorola 6809 simulator. Version 0.11 by Ray P. Bellis <rpb@psy.ox.ac.uk>. ftp://ftp.cns.ox.ac.uk/pub/mc6809/. card for the Chinese market. Eastcom Peace has already experienced success on the Chinese GSM market using the AT90SC product family. The AT90SC product family is based on an AVR (Automatic Voltage Regulation) See voltage regulator. (R) high-performance 8-bit secure microcontroller using enhanced RISC RISC in full Reduced Instruction Set Computing Computer architecture that uses a limited number of instructions. RISC became popular in microprocessors in the 1980s. architecture. They are highly secure, low power consumption products compliant with mobile phone (2, 2.5 and 3G) specifications. Atmel is the world's first IC vendor to bring flash memory technology to smart card applications and it is the best choice when flexibility and time to market are crucial on a new market such as the USIM card for CDMA. "The combination of Atmel's dense non-volatile memory Refers to memory chips that hold their content without power being applied. It may refer to chips that are not changeable, such as ROMs and PROMs, or to chips that can be rewritten many times such as flash memory. technology with the high-performance AVR 8-bit RISC microcontroller offers a very cost-effective solution for our development. Use of flash technology provides us with greater flexibility to satisfy our end users' changing requirements. It also helps us to reduce the development risk while accelerating time to market. It is recognized as an easy progression from flash to mask ROM (mask Read Only Memory) Refers to ROM chips. The term is used to differentiate static ROM chips from programmable ROM varieties (EPROM, EEPROM, flash ROM). See ROM. thanks to the code compatibility of the AT90SC family," said Mr. Huang Xiao-peng, R& D Director of Eastcom Peace. Benoit Makowka, Atmel's Marketing Manager for mobile phone smart card ICs, stated, "Atmel has put a lot of effort into proposing products that fit exactly with the SIM and USIM markets in terms of flexibility, performance, security and price. With several successes already on GSM and UMTS (Universal Mobile Telecommunications System) The GSM implementation of the 3G wireless phone system. Part of IMT-2000, UMTS provides service in the 2 GHz band and offers global roaming and personalized features. markets in Asia, we are very proud to be selected by Eastcom Peace for the Chinese CDMA market." About Atmel Founded in 1984, Atmel Corporation is headquartered in San Jose, California San Jose (IPA: /ˌsænhoʊˈzeɪ/) is the third-largest city in California, and the tenth-largest in the United States. It is the county seat of Santa Clara County. with manufacturing facilities in North America and Europe. Atmel designs, manufactures and markets worldwide, advanced logic, mixed-signal, non-volatile memory, and RF semiconductors. Atmel is also a leading provider of system-level integration semiconductor solutions using CMOS (Complementary Metal Oxide Semiconductor) Pronounced "c-moss." The most widely used integrated circuit design. It is found in almost every electronic product from handheld devices to mainframes. , BiCMOS, SiGe, and high-voltage BCDMOS process technologies. About PTIC/Zhuhai Eastcom Peace Smart Card Co. Ltd. Established in 1998, located in Zhuhai city, Guangdong Province, PR China, Zhuhai Eastcom Peace Smart Card Co., ltd. designs, manufactures and sells various smart cards for customers in the industry of telecom, mobile, banking, society, ID and etc. In Jan 2002, it passed the GSM Association Security Accreditation Scheme audit. At present, it has grown into the main smart card provider in PR China with an annual capacity of 50 million & 20 million pieces of IC and contactless smart cards respectively. Note to Editors: Atmel, the Atmel logo, AVR and combinations thereof are registered trademarks and others contained herein, are trademarks of Atmel Corporation. Terms and product names in this document may be the trademarks of others. Information Atmel's AT90SC product information may be retrieved at: http://www.atmel.com/atmel/products/prod21.htm. Requests may be sent via email to smartcard@atmel.com or by visiting Atmel's website at www.atmel.com. Eastcom Peace and product information can be found at website http://www.eastcompeace.com. |
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