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Equipped with Sophisticated Tegra™ 2 Mobile Superchip
Manufactured by NVIDIA (USA)
Launch of Development of Vehicle-Mounted Android™ Terminal
-”Sample Display at CES 2011 International Consumer Electronics Show-

Jan. 6, 2011
FUJITSU TEN LIMITED

Exhibition Model NVIDIA®Tegra™2
Exhibition Model NVIDIA®Tegra™2

FUJITSU TEN LIMITED (Head office: Kobe City, Hyogo, Japan; President & Representative Director: Takashi Shigematsu, Capital: ¥5.3 billion) is currently developing next-generation vehicle-mounted devices under three general themes of "linking cars with society", "linking cars with people", and "linking cars with other cars, and cars with infrastructure". One project is the development of a vehicle-mounted Android™*3 (equipped with the sophisticated NVIDIA®egra™ 2*1,2 mobile superchip) terminal. A current prototype model of this project will be used as a display model in the NVIDIA (Main office: California, USA; CEO: Jen-Hsun Huang) booth at the 2011 International CES*4, the world's largest consumer electronics trade show, which will be held from Jan. 6 (Thurs) to 9 (Sun.), 2011 in Las Vegas, Nevada (USA).

The exhibition will feature a demonstration of this prototype, which uses the Android™ platform, showing how simple and easy it is to use its applications that include navigation (Zenrin DataCom "Its-mo Navi”) and media player (YouTube-compatible*5 Flash™ player) functions. The media player operates using Android™ 2.2.

Development Background - Supporting Car Networks

The growth of informatization utilizing networks is symbolized by the current rapid expansion of the smartphone market both within Japan and abroad. Android™ is now a standard platform for providing network connectivity functions, and it provides a simple and easy method for connecting with various contents and services. For these reasons, Android™ is rapidly being adopted for mobile devices such as smartphones and tablet PCs.
In the automobile industry, as next-generation vehicles (such HV, PHV and EV) become more widespread, it is expected that the networking of cars, including navigation units, will likewise become even more developed. In response to such changes, FUJITSU TEN is meeting the challenge to create and develop new products and systems under three general themes of "linking cars with society", "linking cars with people", and "linking cars with other cars, and cars with infrastructure"quot;.
One of the ways we are meeting the challenge is considering the future adoption of the AndroidTM to improve automobile connectivity, and as such we have created a prototype for a vehicle-mounted AndroidTM terminal. Additionally, we have equipped this prototype with NVIDIA®Tegra™ 2, a mobile superchip with high processing performance and low power consumption performance.

*1:NVIDIA®:
Corporation: Major American semiconductor manufacturer established in 1993.
A leading company in the PC graphic chip market.

*2:Tegra™2 is a registered trademark or trademark of the NVIDIA Corporation in the USA and other countries.

*3: Android is a registered trademark or trademark of Google Inc.

*4:Consumer Electronics Show: The world's largest consumer electronics trade show organized by the Consumer Electronics Association. 2010 statistics: 2,700 companies exhibiting with approx. 130,000 attendees.

*5:YouTube is a registered trademark or trademark of Google Inc..

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