Spreadtrum Communications, Inc. (Nasdaq: SPRD), one of China's leading wireless baseband chipset providers, today announced that it will host its 2008 Spreadtrum Technology Forum on June 17 and 18 (Beijing Time) at the Riverfront Business Hotel in Shanghai, China, with a theme of the "Collaboration Creates Value". This forum is Spreadtrum's second organized event for the wireless IC and communications industry following the successful inaugural Spreadtrum Technology Forum in August in 2007. Adhering to the basic ideas of cooperation and innovation, as embodied in this year's theme, it is the goal of the 2008 Spreadtrum Technology Forum to be a valuable event providing details on potential technology and market opportunities, while allowing every attendee to network and explore new business opportunities with other industry partners. With over half of the world's handsets now being produced out of China, Spreadtrum hopes that this forum may contribute to the development of the China's technology innovation efforts and enhancement of the global industrial supply chain.

With the theme of "Collaboration Creates Value", the 2008 Spreadtrum Technology plans to not only showcase its latest technology achievements and platform products for the Olympic year 2008 at the forum but also discuss its vision of wireless communications and multimedia solutions entering 2009 and beyond. In the high level roundtable discussion "TD-SCDMA: Drawing Sword" session, Spreadtrum and its honored guests will discuss plans on how to catch market opportunities offered by this new technology and when the commercial deployment of TD-SCDMA technology should begin to ramp. In the VIP conversation "How to find China's mobile way out" session, Spreadtrum and its partners will look at the future of China's mobile industry and discuss how to drive China's mobile industry through close cooperation among all the sections in the industry value chain. In addition, the Forum will provide all the attendants with opportunities to communicate face-to-face with Spreadtrum personnel and its partners as well, exchange ideas with technical experts in the industry for future critical technologies and market trends in various Technology Workshop Sessions. These workshop sessions feature topics including: Mobile TV, RF technology, software platform, and product differentiation. At the same time, the forum will set up a "special experience center for Olympics and TD-SCDMA", where attendees can see demonstrations of new products from Spreadtrum's customers and new applications developed by Spreadtrum's partners, based on Spreadtrum's TD-SCDMA baseband chipsets, including: Video Phone, Streaming Mobile-TV, fixed-mobile convergence (FMC) solution. In addition, some live test activities will also be organized, such as a live demo of CMMB broadcast on handset. Through these special interactions, visitors should leave the Forum with a better understanding of how technology innovation by Spreadtrum and its various industry partners can offer a richer communications experience for people's lives.

So far, expected attendees for the 2008 Spreadtrum Technology Forum include officials and experts from the State Administration of Radio Film and Television Radio Film and Television (SARFT), China Mobile Group, the TD-SCDMA Industry Alliance (TDIA) and TD-SCDMA Technology Forum. In addition, high-level managers and experts from various Spreadtrum clients and partners, including ZTE, Huawei, Datang, ARM, CEVA, TSMC, ASE, Lenovo, and Amoi, will also attend the forum. At the same time, some mainstream media sources, such as DIGITIMES, xinhuanet.com, sina.com, ccidnet.com, Electronics News Communications Weekly and CEO & CIO China, will cover the Forum and provide live broadcast and reports from the event. We believe that with the support of all of its friends, the 2008 Spreadtrum Technology Forum will be a grand event for China's information industry. As a China-based company, Spreadtrum views technology innovation and industry advancement as its personal and vital responsibility, and hopes to grow with its partners and clients together to face the challenges from future development and explore new opportunities of both domestic and international markets.

Source:PR Newswire