-- “Collaboration Creates Value”
SHANGHAI, China, June 13 /Xinhua-PRNewswire/ -- Spreadtrum Communications, Inc. (Nasdaq: SPRD), one of China’s leading wireless baseband chipset providers, today announced that it will host its 2008 Spreadtrum Technology Forum on June 17 and 18 (Beijing Time) at the Riverfront Business Hotel in Shanghai, China, with a theme of the “Collaboration Creates Value”. This forum is Spreadtrum’s second organized event for the wireless IC and communications industry following the successful inaugural Spreadtrum Technology Forum in August in 2007. Adhering to the basic ideas of cooperation and innovation, as embodied in this year’s theme, it is the goal of the 2008 Spreadtrum Technology Forum to be a valuable event providing details on potential technology and market opportunities, while allowing every attendee to network and explore new business opportunities with other industry partners. With over half of the world’s handsets now being produced out of China, Spreadtrum hopes that this forum may contribute to the development of China’s technology innovation efforts and enhancement of the global industrial supply chain.
With the theme of "Collaboration Creates Value", the 2008 Spreadtrum Technology Forum plans to not only showcase its latest technology achievements and discuss its technology development plans for the Olympic year 2008 at the forum, such as Spreadtrum’s 2.8M HSDPA solution for mobile handsets and Mobile TV devices, but also discuss its vision of wireless communications and multimedia solutions entering 2009 and beyond. There will be two panels at the Forum. In the high level roundtable discussion “TD-SCDMA: Drawing Sword” session, Spreadtrum and its honored guests will discuss plans on how to catch market opportunities offered by this new technology and when the commercial deployment of TD-SCDMA technology should begin to ramp. In the VIP conversation "How to find China’s mobile way out" session, Spreadtrum and its partners will look at the future of China’s mobile industry and discuss how to drive China’s mobile industry through close cooperation among all the sections in the industry value chain. These two panels provide a unique opportunity given so many CEOs of design houses and local brand handset manufacturers to talk together and share their insights on the China mobile industry. In addition, the Forum will provide all the attendants with opportunities to communicate face-to-face with Spreadtrum personnel and its partners as well， exchange ideas with technical experts in the industry for future critical technologies and market trends in various Technology Workshop Sessions. These workshop sessions feature topics including: Mobile TV, RF technology, software platform, and product differentiation. At the same time, the forum will set up a “special experience center for Olympics and TD-SCDMA”, where attendees can see demonstrations of new products from Spreadtrum’s customers and new applications developed by Spreadtrum’s partners, based on Spreadtrum’s
TD-SCDMA baseband chipsets, including: Video Phone, Streaming Mobile-TV, fixed-mobile convergence (FMC) solution. In addition, some live test activities will also be organized, such as a live demo of CMMB broadcast on handset. Through these special interactions, visitors should leave the Forum with a better understanding of how technology innovation by Spreadtrum and its various industry partners can offer a richer communications experience for people’s lives.
So far, expected attendees for the 2008 Spreadtrum Technology Forum include officials and experts from the State Administration of Radio Film and Television Radio Film and Television (SARFT), China Mobile Group, the TD-SCDMA Industry Alliance (TDIA) and TD-SCDMA Technology Forum. In addition,
high-level managers and experts from various Spreadtrum clients and partners, including ADI, Amoi, ARM, ASE, ASUS, BIRD, Borqs, BOSCH, BYD, CEVA, Datang, EPSON, EYANG, Fairchild, Foxconn, Gionee, Ginwave, GaoTong, Haier, HanteL, Hisense, HITACHI, HP, Inventec Appliances Corp, Lenovo, Longcheer, LT Mobile Communications, New Postcom, Panda, RFMD, Samsung, SIM Technology, SiRF, SPIL, Spreadtone, Sun Microsystems, TCL, Techfaith, TopWise, Toshiba, TSMC, VTION, WingTech, XunRui, Yulong, ZTE and more than 200 local and international companies will attend the forum. At the same time, some mainstream media sources, such as DIGITIMES, xinhuanet.com, sina.com, ccidnet.com, Electronics News Communications Weekly and CEO & CIO China, will cover the Forum and provide live broadcast and reports from the event. We believe that with the support of all of its friends, the 2008 Spreadtrum Technology Forum will be a grand event for China’s information industry. As a China-based company, Spreadtrum views technology innovation and industry advancement as its personal and vital responsibility, and hopes to grow with its partners and clients together to face the challenges from future development and explore new opportunities of both domestic and international markets.
If you want to sign up for the forum, please visit http://www.spreadtrum.com .
About Spreadtrum Technology Forum
Spreadtrum Technology Forum-STF is an annual technology forum hosted by Spreadtrum Communications and targeted at the converging communications industry. In 2007, the first Spreadtrum Technology Forum was successfully held, promoting the theme of "Innovation Changes the Future", with live broadcasts by several media sources such as Sina.com and Xinhua News Agency. Please visit http://www.spreadtrum.com to learn more.
About Spreadtrum:
Spreadtrum Communications, Inc. (Nasdaq: SPRD; "Spreadtrum") is a fabless semiconductor company that develops baseband and RF processor solutions for the wireless communications market. Spreadtrum combines its semiconductor design expertise with its software development capabilities to deliver
highly-integrated baseband processors with multimedia functionality and power management. Spreadtrum offers terminal manufacturers a comprehensive portfolio of highly-integrated baseband processor solutions, as well as multimedia chips, RF chips, protocol software and software application platforms. Spreadtrum has developed its solutions based on an open development platform, enabling its customers to develop customized wireless products that are feature-rich and meet their cost and time-to-market requirements. For more information, please check http://www.spreadtrum.com .
Safe Harbor Statements:
This press release contains "forward-looking statements" within the meaning of the "safe harbor" provisions of the U.S. Private Securities Litigation Reform Act of 1995. Such forward-looking statements include, without limitation, the contribution the technology forum may have with respect to China’s technology innovation efforts and the enhancement of the global industrial supply chain, and Spreadtrum’s hope with respect to growth with its partners and clients. These statements are forward-looking in nature and involve risks and uncertainties that may cause actual market trends and Spreadtrum’s actual results to differ materially from those expressed or implied in these forward-looking statements for a variety of reasons. Potential risks and uncertainties include, but are not limited to, Spreadtrum’s expectations with respect to this technology forum, continued competitive pressure in the semiconductor industry and the effect of such pressure on prices; unpredictable changes in technology and consumer demand for mobile handsets, and the state of and any change in Spreadtrum’s relationships with its major partners and customers. For additional discussion of these risks and uncertainties and other factors, please consider the information contained in Spreadtrum’s filings with the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (the "SEC"), including the registration statement on Form F-1 filed on June 26, 2007, as amended, especially the sections under "Risk Factors" and "Management’s Discussion and Analysis of Financial Condition and Results of Operations," and such other documents that Spreadtrum may file with the SEC from time to time, including on Form 6-K. Spreadtrum assumes no obligation to update any forward-looking statements, which apply only as of the date of this press release.
