Renesas Electronics Corporation and Symbian Foundation Limited today announced that Renesas has joined the Symbian Foundation, to bring advanced mobile technology, chipsets and expertise to the Symbian ecosystem. Availability Renesas chipsets that support the Symbian platform enables OEMs worldwide to create Symbian-compliant devices that fully meet the needs of network operators, Symbian accelerate adoption across the world.
Renesas has a proven record of providing mobile chipset platform for NTT DoCoMo’s FOMA MOAP (S) Symbian-based smartphones. By becoming a member of the Symbian Foundation, Renesas has reaffirmed its commitment to working with communities to create Symbian, the really interesting unique multimedia user experience for mobile consumers.
Renesas has joined the Symbian Foundation to proactively participate in open source ecosystems and to encourage innovation based on a combination of technology generation CPUs Renesas’ multi-core processors and advanced multimedia and graphics capabilities provided by the Symbian platform. Renesas also intends to contribute to the development of Symbian Hardware Abstraction Interface (Shai), which will make the adaptation hardware is easier than ever before.
“Symbian is pleased to welcome Renesas Electronics Corporation as a member of the Symbian community,” said Larry Berkin, Head of Global Alliances at Symbian. “We appreciate very broad industry Renesas’ technology and expertise as a premier supplier of advanced semiconductor solutions and believe that their active contribution, not only for the platform but also to the public, will further enrich the user experience of Symbian from the future with fantastic multimedia and graphics capabilities . ”
“Calling on years of experience in providing a platform chipset mobile for NTT DoCoMo’s FOMA MOAP (S) smartphones based on Symbian, Renesas well placed to work with Symbian to enable the user experience of multimedia that focuses on interesting on mobile devices the new arrivals,” said Hideaki Chaki , Senior Vice President and Vice President of Business Unit 2 SoC from Renesas Electronics Corporation. “We believe that the global reach of Symbian will enable us to expand our mobile business platform into the smartphone market outside of Japan.”
