Spansion has announced that designers of mainstream mobile phones and portable electronics gained new weapons against malicious hackers, phone thieves, and other high-tech criminals with the introduction of the Spansion S29PL family of Flash memory products. These 128-, 64- and 32-megabit devices, the industry's fastest for 3-volt wireless systems, use market-leading 110-nanometer floating gate technology to provide the price-performance demanded for today's mainstream mobile product designs. Spansion Flash memory products are manufactured by Spansion and available from AMD and Fujitsu.

Advanced Sector Protection, available throughout the Spansion S29PL family, is the industry's most robust Flash security feature set and the only one to feature password protection for everyday consumer products. Multiple layers of security help protect against tampering with unique identification numbers, access settings, and other protected information while fending off viruses, worms, and other network attacks.

The Spansion S29PL product family contains two distinct 128-megabit products: the standard Spansion S29PL127J and the specialized Spansion S29PL129J. The innovative S29PL129J product features dual "chip-enable" inputs that enable designers to use a single-chip 128-megabit solution on platforms otherwise limited to addressing 64 megabits of memory. The product provides the same industry-leading performance as the standard Spansion S29PL127J product while replacing two separate 64-megabit devices to save board space and cost.

The Spansion S29PL product family is in volume production of 128- and 64-megabit products, with 32-megabit products to follow. The 128-megabit, 64-megabit, and 32-megabit devices are priced at $12.00, $7.00 and $4.00 each, respectively, in quantities of 10,000.

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