Silicon Motion Secures LTE-Advanced Transceiver Win With Leading Korean Handset OEM
March 04 2014 - 7:00AM
Silicon Motion Technology Corporation (Nasdaq:SIMO) ("Silicon
Motion"), a global leader in designing and marketing NAND flash
controllers for solid state storage devices and specialty RF ICs
solutions for mobile devices, today announced that it has
successfully completed testing of FC7880, its new LTE-Advanced
transceiver, and secured its first smartphone design win with a
leading Korean handset OEM. Production is anticipated to begin late
in the second quarter of 2014.
FC7880, Silicon Motion's new high performance, low power,
multi-mode diversity LTE-Advanced (3GPP Release 10) transceiver is
the only single chip, SAW-less solution that monolithically
integrates four receivers and one transmitter (4x1 MIMO) and is
also the smallest LTE-Advanced transceiver available today. This
transceiver enables carrier aggregation, covers all 41 prescribed
spectrum bands and supports GSM, GPRS, EDGE, HSPA, HSPA+, TD-SCDMA,
FDD-LTE and TD-LTE.
"We are excited about supplying our Korean handset OEM with our
first LTE-Advanced transceiver solution and providing our partner
with the most advanced transceiver technology in the market
today. We look forward to their success and to extending our
partnership," said Wallace Kou, President and CEO of Silicon
Motion.
Silicon Motion has been supplying LTE transceivers under its
"FCI" brand since 2010. Innovative FCI CDMA RF ICs were first
introduced in 2001.
About Silicon Motion:
We are a fabless semiconductor company that designs, develops
and markets high performance, low-power semiconductor solutions to
OEMs and other customers in the mobile storage and mobile
communications markets. For the mobile storage market, our key
products are microcontrollers used in solid state storage devices
such as SSDs, eMMCs and other embedded flash applications, as well
as removable storage products. For the mobile communications
market, our key products are handset transceivers and mobile TV IC
solutions. Our products are widely used in smartphones,
tablets, and industrial and commercial applications. For
further information on Silicon Motion, visit
www.siliconmotion.com.
CONTACT: Investor Contact:
Jason Tsai
Director of IR and Strategy
Tel: +1 408 519 7259
Fax: +1 408 519 7101
E-mail: jtsai@siliconmotion.com
Investor Contact:
Selina Hsieh
Investor Relations
Tel: +886 3 552 6888 x2311
Fax: +886 3 560 0336
E-mail: ir@siliconmotion.com
Media Contact:
Sara Hsu
Project Manager
Tel: +886 2 2219 6688 x3509
Fax: +886 2 2219 6868
E-mail: sara.hsu@siliconmotion.com
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