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Leading Automotive Supplier Adopts Motorola Microcontrollers for Powertrain Systems MPC5500 Family Helps Enable Low Costs and Fast Development for Designers AUSTIN, Texas, Feb. 18 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- Motorola, Inc.'s 32-bit MPC5500 microcontroller (MCU) series is ready for the automotive marketplace, and Visteon Corporation is leading the way in the technology integration and application. Visteon is a leading global tier one automotive supplier, delivering innovations and integration to global automakers. Regulatory and market forces have created increasingly stringent performance, emissions and fuel economy standards for vehicles. Visteon uses Motorola's microcontrollers (MCUs) to help stay at the forefront of these standards, and at the same time, enable Visteon to optimize costs and maximize flexibility. "The semiconductor content in vehicles continues to grow year over year," said Will Strauss, president of analyst firm Forward Concepts. "Automotive electronic systems manufacturers are requiring extremely high performance for their powertrain systems in order to control more complex engine and transmission functions, such as multi-point fuel injection and direct diesel injection. Semiconductor suppliers like Motorola, the leader in powertrain microcontrollers, are responding to these requirements with more powerful, highly integrated micros." The MPC5500 allows mechanical functions, such as knock and misfire detection, to be moved to software. This provides Visteon the flexibility to support multiple customer requirements without additional application-specific integrated circuit (ASIC) support and will help Visteon react more quickly to changing customer requirements. MPC5500 Family Easing Migration Motorola's MPC5500 family provides a migration path from the MPC500 series, addressing future automotive application requirements. By creating this transition, Motorola helps customers preserve and leverage previous investments, helping ensure the long-term sustainabilityof their products based on existing MPC500 devices. Motorola offers a comprehensive suite of hardware and software development tools for the MPC5500 family to help simplify and speed development cycles and time to market. For more information please visit: http://www.motorola.com/semiconductors About Motorola, Inc. Motorola, Inc. (NYSE:MOT) is a global leader in wireless, broadband and automotive communications technologies that help make life smarter, safer, simpler, synchronized and fun. Sales in 2003 were U.S. $27.1 billion. Motorola creates innovative technological solutions that benefit people at home, at work and on the move. The company also is a progressive corporate citizen dedicated to operating ethically, protecting the environment and supporting the communities in which it does business. For more information: http://www.motorola.com/. MOTOROLA and the Stylized M Logo are registered in the US Patent & Trademark Office. The "PowerPC" name is a trademark of IBM Corp. and used under license from IBM Corp. All other product or service names are the property of their respective owners. http://www.newscom.com/cgi-bin/prnh/20020307/MOTLOGO http://www.newscom.com/cgi-bin/prnh/20020415/MOTNOTAGLOGO http://photoarchive.ap.org/ DATASOURCE: Motorola, Inc. CONTACT: Americas: Kim Mallinger, +1-512-895-1654, or , or Europe, Middle East and Africa: Regina Cirmonova, +41-22-799-1258, or fax, +41-22-799-1340, or , or Asia Pacific: Gloria Shiu (Hong Kong), +852-2666-8237, or , all of Motorola Web site: http://www.motorola.com/

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