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Amoi Adopts Silicon Laboratories' Aero I+ TransceiverAUSTIN, Texas --(Business Wire)-- Dec. 13, 2004 -- Highly Integrated Transceiver Reduces Board Space on GSM/GPRS Handsets Silicon Laboratories Inc. (NASDAQ:SLAB) today announced that Amoi Electronics Co., Ltd., a leading provider of GSM/GPRS handsets in China, has adopted Silicon Laboratories' Aero(R) I+ GSM/GPRS transceiver for several of its mobile handsets including the CA8, DF9, F6, F8 and F90 handsets. The high level of integration offered by the Aero I+ transceiver allows Amoi to provide a compact handset to consumers. The Aero I+ transceiver integrates the digitally-controlled crystal oscillator (DCXO), reducing the overall bill-of-materials for handset manufacturers. Compared to competing solutions, the Aero I+ requires significantly fewer components, greatly simplifying the design and manufacturing process of compact GSM/GPRS handsets where board space is at a premium. "Amoi is a leader in full-featured, fashionable GSM/GPRS handsets," said Xie Hongquan, senior vice general manager of Amoi. "Silicon Laboratories' Aero I+ transceiver offers market-leading integration in a tiny footprint, which results in better performance and board space savings allowing us to easily provide a number of benefits to our customer." "Silicon Laboratories is pleased to provide handset manufacturers such as Amoi an easy-to-use, highly integrated, proven transceiver," said Ed Healy, vice president of Silicon Laboratories. "We continue to strengthen our leadership in the RF market by offering the most competitive transceivers available." The Aero transceiver product family includes the Aero I/Aero I+, Aero II and Aero EDGE radio. The Aero transceivers integrate sensitive components including all RF and IF voltage-controlled oscillators (VCOs), loop filters, clock coupling capacitors and VCO tuning components. The Aero I+, Aero II and Aero EDGE radio transceivers provide additional integration of a DCXO that permits the use of a standard 13/26 MHz crystal instead of a VC-TCXO module to provide the RF transceiver reference clock. The Aero transceivers use a software-programmable universal baseband interface allowing handset designers to implement the Aero transceiver with all leading basebands. The Aero transceivers are fully compliant with GPRS Class 12 requirements providing high-speed data communications to the mobile computing environment. Amoi Electronics Co., Ltd. Founded in 1997, Amoi Electronics Co., Ltd. is one of the top suppliers of cellular handsets in China. Amoi also develops and manufactures an extensive range of products including consumer audio and video systems, flat panel televisions, MP3 players and personal computers for the communication, computer and consumer electronics industries. Amoi is headquartered in China with research centers in Xiamen, Shanghai and Nanjing. For more information about Amoi, please visit www.amoi.com.cn. Silicon Laboratories Inc. Silicon Laboratories Inc. is a leading designer of high-performance, analog-intensive, mixed-signal integrated circuits (ICs) for a broad range of applications. Silicon Laboratories' diverse portfolio of highly integrated, patented solutions is developed by a world-class engineering team with decades of cumulative expertise in cutting-edge mixed-signal design. The company has design, engineering, marketing, sales and applications offices throughout North America, Europe and Asia. For more information about Silicon Laboratories please visit www.silabs.com. Cautionary Language This press release may contain forward-looking statements based on Silicon Laboratories' current expectations. These forward-looking statements involve risks and uncertainties. A number of important factors could cause actual results to differ materially from those in the forward-looking statements. Silicon Laboratories believes that it is important to communicate the company's future expectations to investors. However, there may be events in the future that Silicon Laboratories is not able to accurately predict or control. For a discussion of these and other factors that could impact Silicon Laboratories' financial results and cause actual results to differ materially from those in the forward-looking statements, please refer to Silicon Laboratories' recent filings with the SEC, particularly the Form 10-K filed January 26, 2004 and the 10-Q filed October 25, 2004. Note to editors: Silicon Laboratories, Aero and the Silicon Laboratories logo are trademarks of Silicon Laboratories Inc. All other product names noted herein may be trademarks of their respective holders. |
