Press Release

PLEXTEK WINS INDUSTRY AWARD FOR WORK ON MOBILE ENTERTAINMENT DEVICE

Independent electronics design consultancy Plextek scooped a leading electronics industry award beating off three other finalists to win the Design Solution of the Year category in The Electronics Industry Design Awards last week (23 September). The award recognised Plextek’s innovative achievements in the application of hardware/software in design engineering for Gizmondo Europe Ltd’s mobile entertainment device.

Called The Gizmondo, the device, scheduled for launch in the UK at the end of October, is powered by a Microsoft Windows CE.net platform, includes a 2.8-inch TFT colour screen with a Hitachi ARM9 400Mhz processor and incorporates a 128-bit Nvidia graphics accelerator. It provides cutting-edge gaming, multimedia messaging, an MP3 music player, MPEG 4 movie playing capability, a digital camera and a GPRS network link to allow wide-area network gaming. Additionally, it contains GPS for location-based services, is equipped with Bluetooth for use in multi-player gaming and accepts MMC card accessories.

Carl Freer, Managing Director, Gizmondo Europe, commented, "We are very proud that working with Plextek has resulted in such a great win. It clearly acknowledges the revolutionary nature of our design. Gizmondo is set to change the face of mobile gaming.”

Ian Murphy, Technical Director Plextek Ltd, said “We are delighted to win this award and proud to be developing this world class product for Gizmondo. The open voting system on which these awards are based demonstrates valuable recognition by our industry peers of our ability to use cutting edge technology to deliver world class design solutions for embedded handheld products like Gizmondo.”

Issued 01/10/2004