Fujitsu Limited Institute for Information Industry

Tokyo/Taipei, July 10, 2002--Fujitsu Limited and the Institute for Information Industry (III) today announced that, in order to leverage their complementary technology development strengths and deliver optimized semiconductor solutions to the market in the fastest and most efficient manner, they have agreed to explore co-development collaboration in the following three areas:

1. Media-rich PDA solutions utilizing Fujitsu's FR-V processor core
2. Common platforms for 3G mobile SIM applications
3. Products that apply FRAM (Ferroelectric Random Access Memory)

They further agreed that the initial focus of cooperation would be media-rich PDAs utilizing Fujitsu's FR-V processors.

According to terms of the agreement, Fujitsu will provide III with its FR-V platform equipped with a highly scalable Linux(*1)-based operating system and Fujitsu's middleware, which makes the most of FR-V's media performance. III will design software for media players and PDA applications, utilizing Fujitsu's platforms. This collaboration will enable the two companies to offer advanced media- rich PDA solutions with exceptional scalability.

Fujitsu is a global IT technology provider with state-of-the-art technology, while III has software development capability as well as considerable marketing strength, especially in Chinese-speaking areas. Capitalizing on these complementary strengths will enable both parties to shorten development cycles, more rapidly respond to changing market needs, and consolidate their position as global market leaders.

(*1)

axLinux is a Linix-based operating system developed and offered by AXE for embedded and mobile applications. Kernel tuning and debugging are carried out independently.

*FRAM is a registered trademark of Ramtron International Corporation. All other company/product names mentioned may be trademarks or registered trademarks of their respective holders.

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