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Espoo, Finland and Tokyo, Japan - Renesas Electronics Corporation, a premier
supplier of advanced semiconductor solutions, and Nokia Corporation, the world
leader in mobile communications, today announced that they are deepening their
collaboration by forming a strategic business alliance to develop modem
technologies for HSPA+/LTE (Evolved High-Speed Packet Access / Long-Term
Evolution) and its evolution.

As part of this alliance, the companies have entered into an agreement whereby
Renesas Electronics is to acquire Nokia's wireless modem business for
approximately USD 200 million. The alliance is planned to be enhanced by
long-term joint research cooperation on future radio technologies.

The planned transfer of Nokia's wireless modem business enables Renesas
Electronics to maximize the value of Nokia's technology assets and engineering
expertise in delivering advanced mobile platform solutions to the market by
combining them with Renesas Electronics' market-proven multimedia processing and
RF technologies. Together with Renesas Electronics' robust line-up of
application processors, RF transceiver ICs, high power amplifiers, and power
management devices, the wireless modem technologies enable Renesas Electronics
to deliver a complete mobile platform solution to the market.

The wireless modem business to be transferred to Renesas Electronics includes
Nokia's wireless modem technologies for LTE, HSPA and GSM standards, which have
been used for billions of handsets in the global market over the years. Further,
Nokia transfers Renesas Electronics certain patents related to the transferred
technology asset. The planned transfer would also include approximately 1,100
Nokia R&D professionals, the vast majority of whom are located in Finland,
India, the UK and Denmark.

The planned transfer is expected to further strengthen Renesas Electronics'
position as one of the leading chipset vendors in the 3G and LTE market that is
capable of providing one-stop mobile platform solutions, supporting an extensive
range of modem protocols from GSM to LTE, and integrating advanced multimedia
and computer processing capabilities.

"The agreement with Nokia demonstrates our long-standing commitment to shape the
future of advanced mobile platforms and will serve as an important step for us
to become a leading mobile platform vendor in the global market. Our
collaboration with Nokia will enable consumers to enjoy true mobile cloud
computing experiences through our advanced high-speed mobile devices," said
Yasushi Akao, President of Renesas Electronics Corporation. "In line with our
ongoing efforts to strengthen our business structure, the transferring wireless
modem technology and the innovation power and expertise of Nokia's employees
will perfectly complement our core competences and serve as the key driving
forces in growing our mobile business in the global market."

"Wireless modems are an integral part of today's chipset solutions, and we
believe that Renesas Electronics, as one of the key chipset vendors in the
market, is in an ideal position to further develop this offering. The alliance
enables us to continue to focus on our own core businesses, connecting people to
what matters to them with our mobile products and solutions," says Kai Oistamo,
Executive Vice President, Nokia.

Renesas Electronics has licensed the Nokia modem since 2009 and the two
companies have been working together to develop an industry-leading HSPA+/LTE
platform. "I believe that the integration of the world class Nokia wireless
modem into Renesas Electronics' strong multimedia processing and RF
capabilities, places Renesas Electronics in a strong position in HSPA+/LTE
chipsets," says Oistamo.

In order to implement the planned business transfer, Nokia will start the
appropriate personnel consultation process with its personnel representatives
according to each applicable jurisdiction's labor law requirements. The transfer
is subject to regulatory approvals and other customary closing conditions, and
is estimated to take place during the fourth quarter 2010.

About Renesas Electronics Corporation
Renesas Electronics Corporation (TSE: 6723), the world's number one supplier of
microcontrollers, is a premiere supplier of advanced semiconductor solutions
including microcontrollers, SoC solutions and a broad-range of analog and power
devices. Business operations began as Renesas Electronics in April 2010 through
the integration of NEC Electronics Corporation (TSE:6723) and Renesas Technology
Corp., with operations spanning research, development, design and manufacturing
for a wide range of applications. Headquartered in Japan, Renesas Electronics
has subsidiaries in 20 countries worldwide. More information can be found at
www.renesas.com.

About Nokia
At Nokia, we are committed to connecting people. We combine advanced technology
with personalized services that enable people to stay close to what matters to
them. Every day, more than 1.2 billion people connect to one another with a
Nokia device - from mobile phones to advanced smartphones and high-performance
mobile computers. Today, Nokia is integrating its devices with innovative
services through Ovi (www.ovi.com), including music, maps, apps, email and more.
Nokia's NAVTEQ is a leader in comprehensive digital mapping and navigation
services, while Nokia Siemens Networks provides equipment, services and
solutions for communications networks globally.

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are forward-looking statements, including, without limitation, those regarding:
A) the timing of the deliveries of our products and services and their
combinations; B) our ability to develop, implement and commercialize new
technologies, products and services and their combinations; C) expectations
regarding market developments and structural changes; D) expectations and
targets regarding our industry volumes, market share, prices, net sales and
margins of products and services and their combinations; E) expectations and
targets regarding our operational priorities and results of operations; F) the
outcome of pending and threatened litigation; G) expectations regarding the
successful completion of acquisitions or restructurings on a timely basis and
our ability to achieve the financial and operational targets set in connection
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"plans," "will" or similar expressions. These statements are based on
management's best assumptions and beliefs in light of the information currently
available to it. Because they involve risks and uncertainties, actual results
may differ materially from the results that we currently expect. Factors that
could cause these differences include, but are not limited to: 1) the
competitiveness and quality of our portfolio of products and services and their
combinations; 2) our ability to timely and successfully develop or otherwise
acquire the appropriate technologies and commercialize them as new advanced
products and services and their combinations, including our ability to attract
application developers and content providers to develop applications and provide
content for use in our devices; 3) our ability to effectively, timely and
profitably adapt our business and operations to the requirements of the
converged mobile device market and the services market; 4) the intensity of
competition in the various markets where we do business and our ability to
maintain or improve our market position or respond successfully to changes in
the competitive environment; 5) the occurrence of any actual or even alleged
defects or other quality, safety or security issues in our products and services
and their combinations; 6) the development of the mobile and fixed
communications industry and general economic conditions globally and regionally;
7) our ability to successfully manage costs; 8) exchange rate fluctuations,
including, in particular, fluctuations between the euro, which is our reporting
currency, and the US dollar, the Japanese yen and the Chinese yuan, as well as
certain other currencies; 9) the success, financial condition and performance of
our suppliers, collaboration partners and customers; 10) our ability to source
sufficient amounts of fully functional components, sub-assemblies, software,
applications and content without interruption and at acceptable prices and
quality; 11) our success in collaboration arrangements with third parties
relating to the development of new technologies, products and services,
including applications and content; 12) our ability to manage efficiently our
manufacturing and logistics, as well as to ensure the quality, safety, security
and timely delivery of our products and services and their combinations; 13) our
ability to manage our inventory and timely adapt our supply to meet changing
demands for our products; 14) our ability to protect the complex technologies,
which we or others develop or that we license, from claims that we have
infringed third parties' intellectual property rights, as well as our
unrestricted use on commercially acceptable terms of certain technologies in our
products and services and their combinations; 15) our ability to protect
numerous Nokia, NAVTEQ and Nokia Siemens Networks patented, standardized or
proprietary technologies from third-party infringement or actions to invalidate
the intellectual property rights of these technologies; 16) the impact of
changes in government policies, trade policies, laws or regulations and economic
or political turmoil in countries where our assets are located and we do
business; 17) any disruption to information technology systems and networks that
our operations rely on; 18) our ability to retain, motivate, develop and recruit
appropriately skilled employees; 19) unfavorable outcome of litigations; 20)
allegations of possible health risks from electromagnetic fields generated by
base stations and mobile devices and lawsuits related to them, regardless of
merit; 21) our ability to achieve targeted costs reductions and increase
profitability in Nokia Siemens Networks and to effectively and timely execute
related restructuring measures; 22) developments under large, multi-year
contracts or in relation to major customers in the networks infrastructure and
related services business; 23) the management of our customer financing
exposure, particularly in the networks infrastructure and related services
business; 24) whether ongoing or any additional governmental investigations into
alleged violations of law by some former employees of Siemens AG ("Siemens") may
involve and affect the carrier-related assets and employees transferred by
Siemens to Nokia Siemens Networks; 25) any impairment of Nokia Siemens Networks
customer relationships resulting from ongoing or any additional governmental
investigations involving the Siemens carrier-related operations transferred to
Nokia Siemens Networks; as well as the risk factors specified on pages 11-32 of
Nokia's annual report Form 20-F for the year ended December 31, 2009 under Item
3D. "Risk Factors." Other unknown or unpredictable factors or underlying
assumptions subsequently proving to be incorrect could cause actual results to
differ materially from those in the forward-looking statements. Nokia does not
undertake any obligation to publicly update or revise forward-looking
statements, whether as a result of new information, future events or otherwise,
except to the extent legally required.



Media Enquiries:

Renesas Electronics Corporation
Kyoko Okamoto
[phone]
[e-mail]

Nokia
Communications
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