[Motorola demonstrates its advanced Integrated Bluetooth Radio solution, the MC72000, and its Bluetooth Accelerator at Bluetooth Developers Conference in San Jose CA beginning December 10th.]

Austin, Texas -- Avoiding the trade-off between cost and performance found in competing solutions, Motorola, Inc.'s (NYSE:MOT) Semiconductor Products Sector (SPS) is bringing its advanced Integrated Bluetooth Radio (MC72000) solution to handheld device developers looking for high value at low cost.

The MC72000 uses a highly advanced packaging technique to combine the RF and baseband functions, into a single, cost-effective 7mm x 7mm BGA package combined with software, development tools and reference designs to provide one-stop-shopping for developers seeking to bring compelling Bluetooth applications to consumers. Motorola's MC72000 meets the need for low-power, short-range Bluetooth applications with small size constraints, such as cellular phones, headsets and personal digital assistants.

"The Bluetooth chipset market will exceed 35 million units in 2002, and is positioned to surpass 500 million units in 2006. With the MC72000 device, Motorola is equipped to succeed in this market," said Joyce Putscher, director at analyst firm In-Stat/MDR. "Years of RF expertise have been leveraged to create the MC72000, which has been designed to increase radio operating range, dramatically decrease interference and provide superior audio quality. These are critical for cellular handsets and other wireless devices using Bluetooth."

Noise and interference has long presented a challenge to the Bluetooth development community. The MC72000 provides a unique solution to interference issues from devices such as microwave ovens, 802.11b and cordless phones which share the 2.4 GHz unlicensed ISM band with Bluetooth devices. Motorola's efficient implementation of joint detection and maximum likelihood sequence estimator (JD/MLSE) technology is designed to enable the MC72000 to thrive in heavy interference environments. Motorola's JD/MLSE technology uses high-performance signal detection algorithms to increase performance when compared to a Bluetooth specification V1.1-compliant bit slicing radio, which is the industry norm. This in turn, enhances the user's experience by helping to improve the operating range and throughput, while extending the battery life of the end product by reducing re-transmissions.

In addition to the MC72000, Motorola will be demonstrating its Bluetooth Accelerator, a feature of the DragonBall MX1, at the Bluetooth Developers Conference in San Jose, CA, December 10th-12th. Motorola was first to announce a Bluetooth ready application processor. The MX1, when combined with Motorola's BQB-qualified Bluetooth RF/LTCC module, embedded software and optional Bluetooth upper stack, gives developers complete Bluetooth connectivity. The Bluetooth Accelerator, on-chip USB, Multi-Media Accelerator, color LCD controller, A/D converter, Multi-Media Card/Secure Digital and Memory Stick expansion card controllers found on the MX1 replace six ICs with a single-chip multimedia platform.

"For customer's demanding leading edge technology, Motorola's MC72000 is a valuable addition to the Motorola Innovative Convergence(r) family of wireless platforms, and our ARM-based DragonBall MX family of applications processors," said Thierry Cammal, General Manager of EMEA for Motorola's Wireless and Broadband Systems Group. "Combined with outstanding radio, high quality audio and industry-leading noise performance from Motorola, you have all the technology you need to get to market fast with products enabled by Bluetooth technology."

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