Oki Semiconductor Strengthens Presence in North American MCU Market
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March 13, 2002, San Francisco, Calif., Embedded Systems Conference — Oki Semiconductor, a leading technology partner for the new era of digital communications and convergence, today unveiled the ML674000, an ARM®-based 32-bit Micro-Controller Unit (MCU) and the first of a line of standard MCU products available from Oki in North America. Designed using the ARM7TDMI® core and Oki's award winning µPlat™ silicon platform the ML674000 was developed to provide a flexible, off-the-shelf, low-cost solution to designers seeking shorter development times. As a general purpose MCU, Oki's new ML674000 represents a fundamental transition away from the proprietary models of the MCU market and provides an easy, affordable transition path to a 32-bit platform.
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Designers of industrial controllers, security/surveillance systems, medical instruments, games, toys, digital players and other devices can now use ARM's familiar software development tools and Oki's feature-rich hardware to the shorten time to market while lowering their costs. The ML674000 will be featured at the Embedded Systems Conference (Booth #713) this week.

"Customers reliant upon a wide variation of 16- or 32-bit MCUs can now take advantage of an industry-standard ARM architecture and readily available software development tools at a lower cost," said Ike Saeed, vice president of Marketing for Oki Semiconductor. "With Oki's established commitment to customer service and partnership with ARM, customers can be assured of the fastest design and development cycles."

Central to the ML674000 is Oki's winning µPlat™ silicon platform, a powerful methodology to facilitate parallel development of new SOC and ASSP designs. Using µPlat™, Oki is able to shorten the MCU design process while at the same time developing a wide range of additional ARM-based MCUs planned for the North American market.

Features of the ML674000 include:

Price and Availability
Samples of Oki Semiconductor's ML674000 are available now, and pricing is $4.95 at 10,000 units. More information about Oki Semiconductor's ASIC and Logic solutions can be found at: www.okisemi.com/us.

About ARM
ARM is the industry's leading provider of 16/32-bit embedded RISC microprocessor solutions. The company licenses its high-performance, low-cost, power-efficient RISC processors, peripherals and system-chip designs to leading international electronics companies. ARM also provides comprehensive support required in developing a complete system. ARM's microprocessor cores are rapidly becoming a volume RISC standard in such markets as portable communications, hand-held computing, multimedia digitalconsumer and embedded solutions. www.arm.com

About Oki Semiconductor
Building on Oki's century-long commitment to communications technologies and markets, Oki Semiconductor designs and markets a broad line of advanced integrated circuits for telecommunications, network, automotive, computer and consumer products. Oki's product lines include telecommunications, RF, laser, networking, speech synthesis, ASIC, microcontroller and memory devices, offered in a variety of creative packages. Founded in 1977 and headquartered in Sunnyvale, Calif., Oki Semiconductor is a division of Oki America Inc., which is a subsidiary of Oki Electric Industry Co, Ltd. Oki has ISO-9000-certified manufacturing facilities in Japan and Thailand. Information on Oki Semiconductor and its products is available through its Web site at www.okisemi.com/us.

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