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Motorola Labs Licenses Embedded Cap  Technology to Mitsui Mining 



By  Administrator    
Saturday, 01 April 2006 

SCHAUMBURG, IL ?  Motorola Labs, the advanced research arm of  Motorola 
Inc. has granted commercial manufacturing rights  to Mitsui Mining and 
Smelting Co. Ltd. for its patented  Gen 3 Embedded Capacitor Technology. 

Mitsui will use the  licensed Motorola technology to develop and market a 
commercial foil that  can be used for integrating capacitors in mezzanine 
layers of HDI PWBs. 

Motorola will also  implement Mitsui?s commercial foil into the PWBs of 
its own products 

?We are pleased to  leverage leading-edge intellectual property from 
Motorola and combine it  with Mitsui expertise to bring to the electronics 
industry an advanced  product for passives integration in PWBs,? said 
Hirohisa Senzaki, general  manager of Mitsui's corporate R&D center. 

The commercial foil  with Motorola Gen 3 technology will enable capacitors 
typically mounted on  the surface of a PWB to be replaced with those 
embedded inside the board,  freeing up space on the surface for other 
functions. This is the first  time such advanced capability for 
integration will be made available to  the industry and is key to driving 
miniaturization and functionality  improvement in electronics products.

?As the number of wireless  functions in cellphones increase, the number 
of passive components  necessary to realize superior performance also 
increases,? said Dr. Aroon  Tungare, director of miniaturization 
technologies, Motorola Labs.  ?Motorola?s Gen 3 technology allows a large 
number of capacitors to be  eliminated from the PWB surface, thereby 
reducing footprint and cost of  electrical function, while simultaneously 
improving  performance.

?Motorola is researching the miniaturization of  components and systems in 
order to make mobile devices smaller, to  integrate more functions, and to 
enable completely novel products while  reducing cost,? said Dr. Iwona 
Turlik, corporate vice president, physical  realization research, Motorola 
Labs. ?The licensing agreement with Mitsui  adds a new dimension to 
Motorola?s ability to transform laboratory  innovations to world class 
solutions for use in converged mobile devices.?