It's SMART to join up with BrightCom: News from Flextronics

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SMART Modular Technologies has joined with BrightCom Technologies to form a synergistic development and manufacturing alliance. SMART and BrightCom will work together to create products incorporating Bluetooth wireless technology with the goal of combining BrightCom's Bluetooth Application Processor IntelliBlue family of ICs and SMART's design and manufacturing capabilities to develop communication products that bring short-range wireless connectivity to a multitude of devices in small form factors and at a low cost. By aligning their efforts, BrightCom and SMART can better meet customer demands for more reliable and faster time-to-market Bluetooth products.

SMART has years of proven success and expertise in delivering communication modules to its OEM customers in a cost-effective and timely manner.

Integrated solutions using BrightCom's single-chip Baseband Application Processor component, the BIC2101, gives SMART the opportunity to develop and deliver products to its OEM partners and satisfies their demanding schedules.

"This alliance with SMART is of great strategic value to BrightCom", said Yuval Ben-Ze'ev, BrightCom's President and CEO.

"SMART is a world leader in designing and manufacturing OEM products, and together we can provide a significant boost to the successful productisation of Bluetooth technology.

SMART's proven expertise in world-class product development and high-volume manufacturing should create a direct route for our IntelliBlue chip and software platforms to be designed into the products of the world's leading companies".

With BrightCom's hardware, software and design support, SMART expects to offer modules qualified for use in Bluetooth wireless communication devices by calendar Q3, 2001.

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News Release from: Flextronics - Short Range Wireless Edited by the Electronicstalk Editorial Team on 21 March 2001

It's SMART to join up with BrightCom

SMART Modular Technologies has joined with BrightCom Technologies to form a synergistic development and manufacturing alliance.

Note: Readers of the Editor’s free email newsletter will have read this news when it was announced. . It’s free!

News Release from: Flextronics - Short Range Wireless
Edited by the Electronicstalk Editorial Team on 21 March 2001