Icera Livanto(R) Powers Softbank Mobile HSDPA Data Card

Icera Livanto(R) Powers Softbank Mobile HSDPA Data Card

June 05, 2007

-- Adaptive Wireless(TM) Solution Delivers Japan's Highest
Performance
Cellular Broadband System


    BRISTOL, England, June 5 /Xinhua-PRNewswire/ -- 

    Icera Inc., the cellular wireless semiconductor
company, today announced its Livanto(R) ICE8020 wireless
soft modem IC and Adaptive Wireless(TM) technology, are
shipping in the SoftBank Connect Card C01SI. Launched June
1st 2007, the SoftBank C01SI, which has been developed by
Seiko Instruments Inc. (SII), is the world's first Type 3
advanced receiver HSDPA data card, offering simultaneous
receive diversity and MMSE equalization. Operating on the
SOFTBANK MOBILE Corp. (formerly Vodafone K.K.) network in
Japan, it delivers peak download speeds of 3.6Mbps enabled
by Icera's Adaptive Wireless(TM) technology.

    Stan Boland, President and CEO of Icera, said: "We
are delighted to have partnered with SII, which has
contributed important integration and miniaturization
expertise, to achieve the first Type 3 HSDPA compact flash
data card for SOFTBANK MOBILE in Japan. This product launch
is a significant milestone for Icera and strong endorsement
of our leading-edge technology. SOFTBANK MOBILE wanted the
highest performance user equipment for its HSDPA service
and our Livanto(R) wireless soft modem technology
out-performs any other commercially available baseband
solution. We look forward to developing our business in
Japan, the most advanced cellular market in the world, with
further innovation and performance."

    Hiroshi Ohta, Executive Vice President, Product &
Service Development Division, SOFTBANK MOBILE Corp., said:
"SOFTBANK MOBILE's business relies on providing
breakthrough wireless broadband performance. The SoftBank
Connect Card C01SI is enabling us to bring the most
advanced 3.5G solution to our customers who demand the
highest speed, reliable cellular services. We are delighted
to be the launch customer for the most advanced HSDPA data
card in the world."

    Takaaki Yamamoto, Division Manager, Mobile
Communication Systems Division, SII, said: "Only
Icera's Livanto(R) wireless soft modem made it possible for
us to create Japan's highest performance HSDPA system
solution in the smallest form factor. The result is the
SoftBank Connect Card C01SI, which we are proud to see
successfully launched on the SOFTBANK MOBILE
network."

    Receive diversity and equalization have been shown to
significantly enhance modem performance in HSPA categories
and the 3GPP specification sets out performance
requirements based on these techniques as follows:

    -- Enhanced Type 1 defines performance for UEs, which
utilize receive diversity
    -- Enhanced Type 2 defines performance for UEs, which
utilize chip level equalization
    -- Enhanced Type 3 defines performance for UEs, which
utilize receive diversity and chip level equalization

    Livanto(R) ICE8020 is the world's only Enhanced Type 3
solution for 3.6Mbps HSDPA.

    Icera's technology -- the Livanto(R) wireless soft
modem -- is a disruptive new architecture for mobile phones
and datacards. Together with
Icera's Adaptive Wireless(TM) software, Livanto(R) delivers
the world's highest performance cellular broadband via the
latest version of the 3G air interface standard, HSDPA,
enabling consumers to download large email files with
attachments, speedily access web pages and download music
tracks over the air in seconds.

    Since the physical layer and protocols are all in
Adaptive Wireless(TM) software, advanced receivers and
diversity support are delivering dramatic performance
advantages in HSDPA, doubling sector capacity and halving
baseband costs. Already supporting 2.5G standards, GSM,
GPRS and EDGE, Livanto(R) will be developed for additional
air interfaces, including HSUPA, which can be consolidated
on the same device.

    The fundamental new soft architecture of Livanto(R)
breaks the vicious cycle of handset availability lagging
infrastructure for new standards. As well as being amongst
the first to market with a 3.6Mbps HSDPA solution, Icera
aims to drive the availability of faster and more complex
standards through software upgrades on the same Livanto(R)
device -- but without the time and cost of developing,
verifying and manufacturing new silicon. OEMs can deliver
the same terminal, tailored to the standards and features
of different geographic or consumer markets through
software instead of hardware changes, quickly and easily.
After sale, they can be field-upgraded as new
infrastructure is rolled-out: a revolution in handset
communications technology.

    About Icera

    Icera has developed a disruptive new architecture for
cellular phones, cellular datacards and cellular modems,
the Livanto(R) wireless soft modem and Adaptive
Wireless(TM) software. Founded in 2002, Icera is
headquartered in the UK, with design locations in Bristol
and Cambridge UK and Sophia Antipolis, France, sales
offices in Japan and the US and representative support in
Korea. For more information, visit
http://www.icerasemi.com.


    For further information, please contact:

     Sally Doherty 
     Icera 
     Tel:   [phone]
     Email: [e-mail]