TEMPE, Ariz. – 21 May 2007 – Motorola, Inc. (NYSE: MOT) today announced that it has signed a distribution agreement with Tai Full Technologies Corporation that will enable wider access to Motorola’s broad range of embedded communications computing products to original equipment manufacturers (OEMs) in Taiwan. The agreement covers the distribution of Motorola’s standards-based blades, modules, shelves, application-ready platforms and communications servers based on industry standards such as AdvancedTCA®, MicroTCATM, CompactPCI and VMEbus.
“The market for communications computing equipment used in a range of industries, including telecommunications and industrial automation, has been expanding rapidly and competition has brought more choice and better services to customers at lower prices,” said Bill Rojas, Research Director for IDC’s Asia/Pacific Communications Research. “Such an agreement will allow equipment manufacturers to take advantage of standards-based common platforms that are designed to help them deliver differentiated new services and applications to the market quickly, while improving costs, availability and performance.”
“Motorola is a world-class provider of embedded solutions—offering one of the industry’s broadest portfolios spanning AdvancedTCA, MicroTCA, AdvancedMC, CompactPCI and VMEbus technologies as well as comprehensive software offerings,” said Billy Tsai, president of Tai Full Technology. “Using Motorola’s early investments in ATCA and MicroTCA, Tai Full expects to be able to bring more cost-effective, scalable, and highly available embedded solutions to our customers.”
“Tai Full has an industry-wide reputation as a respected electronics distributor in Taiwan,” stated Stephen Dow, vice president and general manager, Embedded Communications Computing, Motorola, Inc. “We are pleased to be working with them to bring our embedded technology to Taiwan’s fast growing communications computing market.”
About Motorola’s Communications Servers
Motorola’s communications servers are open, fully integrated systems that act as a common, carrier-grade platform for a wide range of applications. This common platform concept integrates hardware and software elements to enable equipment manufacturers to focus on adding their application-specific value, thereby reducing the time, cost and risk involved in deploying new revenue-generating applications or migrating existing applications to standards-based technology. For more information: www.motorola.com/computing .
About Motorola Motorola is known around the world for innovation and leadership in wireless and broadband communications. Inspired by our vision of seamless mobility, the people of Motorola are committed to helping you connect simply and seamlessly to the people, information and entertainment that you want and need. We do this by designing and delivering “must have” products, “must do” experiences and powerful networks — along with a full complement of support services. A Fortune 100 company with global presence and impact, Motorola had sales of US $42.9 billion in 2006. For more information about our company, our people and our innovations, please visit www.Motorola.com.