January 19, 2006 – Spansion Inc. and Elpida Memory Inc. are collaborating to combine Spansion’s MirrorBit NOR and ORNAND flash memory and Elpida’s DRAM in a single memory subsystem for use in consumer wireless applications, such as multimedia-rich cell phones. The combination will “offer a complete memory solution to meet our customers’ requirements to deliver more features in smaller form factors,” stated Spansion president and CEO Bertrand Cambou.