June 10, 2004

By: Barry Nugget
Website: http://www.1st-in-cell-phones.com

SH-Mobile Consortium provides customers with innovative, one of the world's most exciting cellular phone technologies

ART Advanced Recognition Technologies, Inc. global leaders in User Interface solutions for mobile devices announced that it has signed a cooperation and co-marketing agreement with Renesas Technology Corp. The agreement enables Renesas' Technology's SH-Mobile Consortium to offer ART's advanced Speech & Handwriting Recognition solutions to its customers.

The new cooperation and co-marketing agreement allows for both companies to demonstrate the advantages of ART's recognition solutions on Renesas' Technology's SH-Mobile platform - a synergy expected to delight prospective customers.

A flexible mobile application processor providing multimedia support for next-generation cellular phone communications, SH-Mobile is the latest innovation from Renesas Technology Corp. - the company formed by the merger of the semiconductor divisions of Hitachi, Ltd. and Mitsubishi Electric Corporation. They turned to ART as the world's leading independent provider of natural User Interface solutions, creators of the breakthrough smARTspeak family of speech recognition technologies.

The SH-Mobile Consortium is dedicated to bringing best of breed applications to the world's Mobile Handsets providers, OEMs and ODMs, says Ikuya Kawasaki, department manager, SoC Design Department 6 of Renesas Technology Corp. We are sure they will appreciate the cooperation between SH-Mobile Consortium and ART that enables them to enjoy the benefits of a strong and flexible application processor, integrated with the most advanced capabilities of Speaker Independent Speech Recognition and Text To Speech features.

Renesas Technology Corp. has swiftly established itself as a leading supplier of highly integrated semiconductor system solutions, said Ron Wolfson, ART's Director of Sales & Business Development. Providing SH-Mobile Consortium customers with innovative user interface solutions on one of the world's most exciting cellular phone technologies, we both further shorten the development cycle and also enlarge the market potential for all concerned.

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