March 30, 2015, Seoul, Korea – Building on the already successfully established partnership between ZTE and Freescale Semiconductor (www.freescale.co.kr, CEO of Freescale Korea, Yeonho Hwang) in deploying world-class LTE base stations, ZTE has selected the Freescale QorIQ Converge B4860 broadband System-on-Chip (SoC) for its next-generation LTE-Advanced macro base stations. With the B4860 SoC, major wireless OEMs and mobile operators can address the increased demand for user bandwidth arising as the industry moves toward 4G mobile broadband systems at a much lower cost.

ZTE, a leading global provider of telecommunications, enterprise, and consumer technology solutions for mobile internet, plans to deploy high-performance, high-capacity base stations using Freescale's advanced B4860 SoC to deliver increased user bandwidth at lower costs and with reduced power consumption. The B4860 processor has proven to deliver outstanding performance for macro-cell base stations, providing exceptional processing power and user capacity. By integrating fully programmable high-performance cores and sophisticated offload acceleration technologies, this device flexibly supports OEMs' most innovative algorithms and features, enabling differentiated customer management. In addition, B4860 customers can dramatically streamline development work and shorten time to market by using a best-in-class suite of optimized development tools.

"As 4G mobile devices continue to proliferate and the demand for wireless connectivity devices for the IoT (Internet of Things) is outpacing the demand for ubiquitous bandwidth, wireless carriers are seeking base station OEMs that provide increasingly higher capacity and processing power," said Tareq Bustami, Vice President of Digital Networking at Freescale Semiconductor. "ZTE is once again meeting these demands with its next-generation LTE-Advanced macro base stations, and Freescale is very pleased that Freescale's B4860 device plays a key role in ZTE providing advanced 4G base stations."

The Freescale B4860 is built on the QorIQ Qonverge platform and combines 64-bit multithreaded Power Architecture® CPU cores, StarCore digital signal processor technology, a powerful MAPLE-B base station acceleration platform, and DPAA networking acceleration capabilities to provide cost-effective, best-in-class performance and connectivity. Freescale's B4860 supports LTE, LTE-Advanced, WCDMA (Wideband Code Multiple Access), and 3GPP (3rd Generation Partnership Project) standards while maintaining a balance between such performance, excellent power efficiency, and future-proof flexibility.

"Freescale and ZTE have a long and successful track record in building world-class wireless infrastructure solutions. This continued collaboration will pave the way for innovative mobile broadband technologies of the future," said Xu Huijun, Senior Vice President and General Manager of the Wireless Products Group at ZTE Corporation. "Through Freescale's technology, ZTE can provide cutting-edge LTE-Advanced macro base station solutions that enable wireless carriers to lower total cost of ownership and facilitate network upgrades."