ASIA China : COMMIT Inc announced the release of its MARS-II chipset solution and reference design supporting 3G TD-HSDPA /GSM / GPRS / EDGE.

This solution can fully meet operators' requirements for commercial TD-SCDMA deployment in terms of seamless handover between TD-SCDMA and 2.5G communications, HSDPA, high-end 3G applications and low power consumption.

MARS-II solution coheres with COMMIT's long-term experiences in TD-SCDMA core technology research, chipset design, product development and field test. Combining its partners' leading semiconductor technology and commercial GSM/GPRS/EDGE solution, COMMIT's Mars-II solution can support TD- HSDPA/GSM/GPRS/EDGE automatic roaming in idle mode and voice/data handover in connection mode, up to 2Mbps HSDPA transmission, MBMS, embedded multimedia codec for audio, video, image and enriching high-end 3G applications such as video telephone, video streaming and high speed internet browsing. The baseband chip of MARS-II is produced in 90nm semiconductor process, which significantly decreases power consumption and cost. Meanwhile, the flexible, scalable and open platform allows customers to develop differentiated products.

Based on MARS-II chipset, COMMIT also developed evaluation platform, data card turnkey solution and completed terminal solution. These products can dramatically shorten the time-to-market for customers' products.

COMMIT solution has been tested and verified with all infrastructure systems for a long-term. Mr. Jian Hu, TD-SCDMA Product line Vice-General Manager of ZTE Corporation, said, "COMMIT HSDPA solution has been tested with ZTE network system both indoors and in the field since the beginning of this year. COMMIT solution can offer customers stable HSDPA data service. The most outstanding advantage of HSDPA is efficiently increasing the system capacity of data transmission and dramatically enhancing the competitiveness of TD- SCDMA."

Bird has adopted COMMIT solution to develop TD-SCDMA terminal since 2004. Bird HSDPA handset based on COMMIT solution, the only terminal tested and verified in the TD-SCDMA industry, has already been extensively used for testing by infrastructure vendors and operators. Mr. Jiandong Zhao, Chief Engineer of NingBo Bird Co., Ltd., said, "COMMIT MARS chipset has characteristics such as high-integrity, low-power consumption and stability, which makes it the leading solution in TD-SCDMA industry. We believe that TD- SCDMA terminals based on MARS-II solution will be more competitive in the market. Bird and COMMIT will further strengthen the cooperation to offer more commercial TD-SCDMA terminals and fully meet operators' demands."

As of now, engineering samples and reference designs are ready for customers to develop and test their products. Some of the world's leading mobile handset OEMs, ODMs and design houses have begun using MARS-II to design their TD-SCDMA dual mode terminal products. These terminal products will be launched to the market gradually in the first half of 2008 to meet the service requirements of the coming Olympics games. At that time, end users will be able to enjoy wonderful games through TD-SCDMA terminals based on COMMIT solution.

About COMMIT

COMMIT Incorporated, established in February 2002, consists of 17 famous and respected industrial enterprises, including China PUTIAN Corporation, China Academy of Telecommunications Technology (CATT), Texas Instruments (China), Nokia (China) Investment Co. Limited, LG Electronics, Inc., and Hyper Market International Limited.

With the goal to create Chinese homegrown intellectual properties, develop market-competitive products, satisfy customers' requirements and promote TD- SCDMA industry, COMMIT endeavors to be a worldwide leader in wireless communication industry.