Spansion, a pure-play provider of Flash memory solutions, has announced plans to support Open Mobile Terminal Platform (OMTP), the newly released handset standard.
Designed to meet the demand for “trusted” mobile transactions and handling sensitive data, the OMTP is a forum funded by companies from across the mobile phone value chain.
The forum aims to gather and drive mobile terminal requirements to ensure consistent and secure implementations, which will facilitate in reducing fragmentation and “simplifying” the customer experience of mobile data services across mobile terminals.
OMTP says that its recommendations benefit carriers, content providers, middleware vendors and handset manufacturers to develop open and compatible mobile devices.
Published in “Advanced Trusted Environment,” the recommendations (TR1) focus on security requirements. The OMTP recommendations are expected allow a device to provide “better” protection for new mobile payment solutions and trusted services, such as mobile TV.
Company officials said supporting the new security standards will allow consumers to store and access their personal data, pictures, music, audio-books and videos on a broad range of portable devices “securely.”
“The new TR1 recommendations come at a time when analysts are predicting that mobile payments and banking will soar,” said Tim Raby, managing director at OMTP.
He also said that by embracing the OMTP requirements, Spansion can provide much of the “enhanced security network,” operators around the world are asking for, while creating “greater confidence” in and wider adoption of mobile payment services.
“The pace of innovation in the world of portable and affordable consumer devices is creating strong demand from manufacturers for more secure storage memory,” noted Marco Roveda, vice president of Marketing in the Security and Advanced Technology Division (SATD) at Spansion.
He said that the Spansion’s roadmap includes security solutions designed to meet the recently announced OMTP standards to bring added value to the customers.
In addition to supporting the OMTP recommendations, Spansion plans to have its security controllers undergo compliance efforts in 2009.
Company officials said that memory controllers take valid commands and allow memory to be written to, read from, or set into, while a security controller adds “another level of protection” to the memory by allowing authorized users access to specific data from the memory.
Previously a joint venture of AMD and Fujitsu, Spansion enables the storing and protection of digital content in wireless, automotive, networking and consumer electronics applications.
Last month, Spansion announced the formation of the Spansion Solutions Network designed to help customers bring products to market “quickly” by providing a network of partnerships with leading hardware and software manufacturers.
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