Infineon powers 3G SoftBank 705P handset

October 5, 2006

nfineon Technologies, announced that its GPRS/UMTS multimedia platform powers Panasonic Mobile Communications newest commercially available Softbank 705P mobile handset which SOFTBANK MOBILE launched these days for the Japanese market. Infineon's scalable platform, the MP-EU (Multimedia Platform EDGE/UMTS) contains all the necessary hardware and software components of a mobile handset. It enables mobile phone manufacturers to quickly introduce a variety of UMTS models all based on the same core architecture significantly reducing design cycles and slashing time-to-market.

"Infineon and Panasonic have a long track-record of successful cooperation and we are happy to expand our activities by bringing a common dual-mode 3G solution in the market." said Prof. Dr. Hermann Eul, member of the Infineon Management Board and President of the Infineon Communication Solutions Business Group. "With the proven MP-EU solution, Infineon has demonstrated its capability to deliver an attractive and competitive dual-mode platform, which also fulfils the special requirements of the Japanese market to its customers."

The Softbank 705P, GPRS/UMTS dual-mode phone will be commercially available in Japan, a market well known for its challenging, high quality requirements. The phone supports the 3GPP Release 99 specifications, has achieved full conformance and has successfully passed interoperability and field testing with all the world's leading infrastructure vendors and operators. This achievement underscores Infineon's position as a leading supplier of chipset and software solutions in the mobile phone market.

Infineon's MP-EU hardware reference design consists of the company's state-of-the-art baseband, RF transceiver, power management and Bluetooth devices. The software platform consists of cutting-edge GPRS/UMTS dual-mode protocol stacks that are complemented by the APOXI application and multimedia framework.