China Ministry of Information Industry and Freescale Jointly Establish Lab to Develop Evaluation Systems for Linux Products
BEIJING--Feb. 2, 20058, 2005--| Lab to Provide Linux OS and PowerPC(TM) Architecture Proving Ground for Pervasive Computing Projects in China's Information Industry |
The China Software and Integrated Circuit Promotion (CSIP) Center, a division of the Ministry of Information Industry (MII), and Freescale Semiconductor today announced plans to establish a joint evaluation lab based in Beijing. The lab's purpose is to support the development of pervasive computing evaluation systems based on the Linux operating system (OS) and Freescale family of PowerPC(TM) cores. These evaluation systems are aimed at enhancing the stability and compatibility of Linux(R) products for China's IT industry.
Zhang Qi, MII director general of Electronics Information Products Department, Ministry of Information Industry; Qiu Shan Qin, chief of CSIP; Joe Yiu, senior vice president and general manager for Freescale Asia Pacific region; and Bill Dunnigan, vice president and general manager for Freescale's Computing Platform Division, officiated at the signing ceremony in Beijing to launch the MII-Freescale Linux Systems Lab.
In this collaboration, Freescale and third-party companies will equip the lab with PowerPC processor-based development boards and workstations, as well as development tools, such as Freescale's CodeWarrior(TM) Development Studio. The CSIP Center will staff the lab and conduct system evaluation testing for benchmark suites of Linux products. It also plans to engage Chinese software companies in these projects, which are expected to provide application software porting for the PowerPC architecture and Linux OS.
"For many years, the Ministry of Information Industry has been very active in helping to advance China's semiconductor and software industries and promote international cooperation," said Zhang Qi, MII director general of Electronics Information Products Department, Chinese Ministry of Information Industry. "Through CSIP, we have established an embedded software lab and have provided services for companies such as Dragon Chip and Lenovo. Today, we are pleased to establish a joint lab for Linux systems with Freescale Semiconductor in support of Linux development in China, especially the commercialization of embedded Linux. To this end, we support and encourage multinational companies, such as Freescale, to have substantial technological and business cooperative endeavors with domestic China companies, which will bring benefits to all parties involved."
"Through this joint initiative with CSIP, Freescale is enabling innovation and accelerating the development of pervasive computing projects in China," said Bill Dunnigan, vice president and general manager for Freescale's Computing Platform Division. "Freescale's technologies are already playing a significant role in supporting China's information industry by providing the processing intelligence behind many of the nation's embedded systems. Backed by the leadership of the Ministry of Information Industry, we welcome the opportunity to help drive platform development around the Linux OS and Freescale's family of PowerPC processors and to encourage even more innovation and growth within the pervasive computing industry."
"There have been great achievements in the development of Linux systems products in China. However, there is a lack of standards and processes for the evaluation of stability and compatibility," said Qiu Shan Qin, chief of CSIP. "This collaboration between CSIP and Freescale is intended to provide complete evaluation systems for Linux products to enhance stability and compatibility, and as a result, to establish evaluation benchmarks of standard Linux products. At CSIP, our missions are to promote development of China's IT industry and to provide services for IT enterprises."
"It is a very meaningful move to establish evaluation systems for Linux products," said Ni Guang Nan, Academia of China. "Considering the proliferation of Linux products in the embedded space in the future, there is an urgent need for these scientific and effective evaluation systems. This collaboration between CSIP and Freescale will be very helpful in promoting the application of Linux products in China."
In addition to establishing the joint lab, Freescale and the CSIP Center are planning a joint PowerPC Linux Developers Forum in Beijing, scheduled for Q2 2005. The forum will provide Chinese OEMs, software companies, universities and government entities hands-on training with PowerPC processor and Linux OS technologies, and it will also update the participants on the PowerPC architecture and Freescale product roadmap.
About the CSIP Center
The CSIP Center is an institution through which the Chinese government guides the development of the software and IC industries and provides resources and technical services for the innovation. It guides the development and application of the industries, to engage domestic and foreign enterprises to truly realize the in-depth cooperation between Chinese and foreign enterprises, and to achieve mutual benefits and common development through joint development and resource sharing. www.csip.cn
About Freescale Semiconductor
Freescale Semiconductor, Inc. is a global leader in the design and manufacture of embedded semiconductors for the automotive, consumer, industrial, networking and wireless markets. Freescale became a publicly traded company in July 2004 after more than 50 years as part of Motorola, Inc. The company is based in Austin, Texas, and has design, research and development, manufacturing or sales operations in more than 30 countries. Freescale, a member of the S&P 500(R), is one of the world's largest semiconductor companies with 2004 sales of $5.7 billion (US). www.freescale.com
Freescale(TM) and the Freescale logo are trademarks of Freescale Semiconductor, Inc. All other product or service names are the property of their respective owners. The "PowerPC" name is a trademark of IBM Corp. and used under license. (C) Freescale Semiconductor, Inc. 2005.