SanDisk and NEC Electronics Let Mobile Handset Users Store and Listen to More Music.Lowering Music Phone Power Consumption by up to 85 Percent, NEC (NEC Corporation, Tokyo, www.nec.com, www.necus.com) An electronics conglomerate known in the U.S. for its monitors. In Japan, it had the lion's share of the PC market until the late 1990s (see PC 98). NEC was founded in Tokyo in 1899 as Nippon Electric Company, Ltd. Electronics' AP131 Audio Processor-based Design Running off SanDisk iNAND Embedded Flash Drive to Be Showcased at 3GSM World Congress BARCELONA, Spain -- SanDisk([R]) Corporation (NASDAQ NASDAQ in full National Association of Securities Dealers Automated Quotations U.S. market for over-the-counter securities. Established in 1971 by the National Association of Securities Dealers (NASD), NASDAQ is an automated quotation system that reports on :SNDK) today announced that NEC Electronics Corporation has selected the SanDisk iNAND embedded flash drive (EFD EFD Event Forwarding Discriminator (TMN) EFD Enterprise Flash Drive EFD Education for Democracy (AEGEE) EFD Engineering Field Division EFD Engineering Field Division (NAVFAC) ) as the solid-state mobile storage solution for a new music phone platform that is based on its latest music playback chip, the AP131 audio processor. This marriage of advanced technologies, said the two companies, could give music lovers greatly increased playback times by lowering power consumption up to 85 percent. The AP131-based music phone platform running off the SanDisk iNAND embedded flash drive will be demonstrated at 3GSM World Congress in Hall 7, Booth 7C62 at Spain's Fira de Barcelona exhibition grounds. SanDisk also is showing its innovative storage technologies and solutions for the mobile world in Hall 8, Booth 8C74. "Combining NEC Electronics' AP131 with SanDisk's high-capacity iNAND allows users to store and listen to more music on their handsets due to the higher capacity iNAND and the extended battery life of the chipset," said Masakazu Yamashina, general manager of the Mobile Systems Division at NEC Electronics. "SanDisk iNAND, with its high-capacity, industry-standard SD interface and ease of integration, aided us in the design of our AP131-based platform." The AP131 audio processor is a very small (6mm x 6mm) music playback chip that allows mobile phones to play and share multiple formats of music files, including SD audio. Compared to conventional mobile phones relying on the host CPU CPU in full central processing unit Principal component of a digital computer, composed of a control unit, an instruction-decoding unit, and an arithmetic-logic unit. for music playback, the AP131 chip from NEC lowers power consumption during music playback by as much as 85 percent, delivering up to 60 hours of continuous use from a standard 750mAh mobile battery*. The AP131 chip with SanDisk iNAND embedded flash drive (EFD) will be offered to handset manufacturers for inclusion in future mobile phones. "Allowing mobile phone users to enjoy music on their phones without running down the battery is an impressive feat for this little chip from NEC Electronics," said David Tolub, vice president and co-manager of SanDisk's Mobile Handset Vendor division. "By enabling users to enjoy up to 60 hours of music on a single battery charge, owners of AP131-based music phones are sure to benefit from the abundant capacity offered by our iNAND EFD." Based on the leading industry-standard SD interface, iNAND is a reliable, high-capacity, high-performance NAND flash See flash memory. storage device. iNAND facilitates lower integration efforts and seamless access to the most cost-effective high-capacity multi-level cell MLC NAND flash is a flash memory technology using multiple levels per cell to allow more bits to be stored as opposed to SLC NAND flash technologies, which use a single level per cell. (MLC (MultiLevel Cell) A flash memory technology that stores more than one bit per cell. Traditional flash memory defines a 0 or 1 bit based on a single voltage threshold. ) NAND flash technology available. EE Times recently named the iNAND EFD as an "Ultimate Product of the Year" finalist for its third Annual Creativity in Electronics (ACE) Award. SanDisk iNAND is designed to support mobile TV, multimedia downloading and other storage-hungry applications on portable systems such as mobile handsets, digital audio/MP3 players, gaming applications, personal media players, PDAs and music phones. According to according to prep. 1. As stated or indicated by; on the authority of: according to historians. 2. In keeping with: according to instructions. 3. analyst firm iSuppli, music-player enabled mobile phones now are driving competitive positioning in the wireless handset market. Music phone shipments are estimated to exceed 300 million units in 2006. Full track music delivered to these handsets is expected to drive the mobile music market across all categories to more than $15 billion by 2010. SanDisk is the original inventor of flash storage cards and is the world's largest supplier of flash data storage card products using its patented, high-density flash memory and controller technology. SanDisk is headquartered in Milpitas, California Milpitas (IPA pronunciation: mɪlpitʌs; inhabitants are called 'Milpitans') is a city in Santa Clara County, California. It is located with San Jose to its south and Fremont to its north, at the eastern end of Highway 237 and generally between Interstate freeways 680 and , and has operations worldwide, with more than half its sales outside the U.S. * Based on NEC Corporation evaluation data which used AAC (Advanced Audio Coding) An audio compression technology that is part of the MPEG-2 and MPEG-4 standards. AAC, especially MPEG-4 AAC, provides greater compression and better sound quality than MP3, which also came out of the MPEG standard. format using Secure Digital Music Institute standard (SDMI (Secure Digital Music Initiative) A set of rules for securely distributing digital music over the Internet. Announced in February 1999, it is backed by the Recording Industry Association of America (RIAA) and Sony, Warner, BMG, EMI and Universal, the top five ) with bitrate of 128kbps and sampling frequency of 44.1kHz. SanDisk's product and executive images can be downloaded from http://www.sandisk.com/corporate/media.asp SanDisk's web site/home page address: http://www.sandisk.com SanDisk and the SanDisk logo are trademarks of SanDisk Corporation, registered in the United States United States, officially United States of America, republic (2005 est. pop. 295,734,000), 3,539,227 sq mi (9,166,598 sq km), North America. The United States is the world's third largest country in population and the fourth largest country in area. and other countries. SanDisk is an authorized licensee of the SD trademark. Other brand names mentioned herein are for identification purposes only and may be the trademarks of their respective holder(s). This press release contains certain forward-looking statements, including expectations for new product introductions, applications, cost reductions, markets, and customers that are based on our current expectations and involve numerous risks and uncertainties that may cause these forward-looking statements to be inaccurate. Risks that may cause these forward-looking statements to be inaccurate include among others: market demand for our products may grow more slowly than our expectations or there may be a slower adoption rate for these products in new markets that we are targeting, we may not be able to reduce flash memory costs as expected, and the other risks detailed from time-to-time in our Securities and Exchange Commission filings and reports, including, but not limited to, Form 10-K Form 10-K A report required by the SEC from exchange-listed companies that provides for annual disclosure of certain financial information. Form 10-K See 10-K. and our quarterly reports on Form 10-Q Form 10-Q See 10-Q. . We do not intend to update the information contained in this press release. |
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