Infineon Technologies and WIDCOMM Join Forces to Promote Combined Solutions for Bluetooth Applicatio

Joint press release of Infineon Technologies and WIDCOMM

Munich/San Diego August 20, 2001 - WIDCOMM Inc., a leader in short-range wireless communications and Bluetooth™ networking, and Infineon Technologies (FSE/NYSE: IFX), the world leader for wireless IC solutions and first semiconductor company to receive Bluetooth qualification for a complete system solution, today announced a turn-key Bluetooth system solution targeting portable computers, hand held devices, cellular telephones, and wireless networking applications.

The two companies have combined WIDCOMM’s BTW software and Infineon’s BlueMoonTM chipset to create fully functional Bluetooth 1.1 compliant solutions targeted for PC OEMs as well as contract manufacturers. The combined Bluetooth solution enables PCs and PDAs with Bluetooth capabilities. Infineon Technologies will provide its customers with development kits that will include the Infineon Blue-System Board, the Infineon Bluetooth evaluation and development board and a CD-ROM of WIDCOMM’s BTW software.

“The combination of our sophisticated ICs and the perfectly matched host software from WIDCOMM enables us to provide a highly developed product for suppliers of PC applications, peripherals and others”, said Christian Baumgart, vice president and general manager of the Short Range Wireless business unit at Infineon Technologies. This underlines our commitment to provide complete system solutions that enable our customers to achieve fast time to market while reducing development efforts.”

“We are pleased to collaborate with Infineon in providing a turnkey Bluetooth solution, This robust product offering will enable Bluetooth application developers faster time to market,” said Andreas Malzach, Vice President of Software Business at WIDCOMM. “It demonstrates WIDCOMM’s superior software offering that goes beyond a simple software stack and brings a development environment complete with profiles, test tools and a user interface.”

About BTW

WIDCOMM's BTW is the industry's most complete Bluetooth offering for Microsoft® Windows® environments. It supports ten Bluetooth profiles and operates with Windows 98SE, Windows Me, and Windows 2000. BTW allows PC OEMs and accessory manufacturers a quick and easy solution for adding Bluetooth wireless technology to desktop and notebook PCs running on the Windows operating system platform. In May, WIDCOMM’s BTW completed official Bluetooth Special Interest Group (SIG) certification for compliance with the requirements of the Bluetooth Specification version 1.1.

About BlueMoon™

The Infineon BlueMoon™ family of products include the Bluetooth V1.1 qualified BlueMoon™ I solution supporting 920kBaud over UART targeted at Bluetooth modules and adapters, as well as the BlueMoon™ Multimedia with integrated USB interface and software API (Application Programmers Interface) ideally suited for PC oriented Multimedia applications and host based one controller systems.

Further family members are BlueMoon™ Single for size sensitive products like cellular phones and PDA’s, the BlueMoon™ Single Voice for headsets and the leading core IP BlueMoon™ BlueStar designed for integration in application specific integrated circuits (ASICs). The chipset family is complemented by an offering of very efficient and highly integrated Bluetooth power amplifiers for long range class 1 operation. Further information is available at www.infineon.com/bluetooth