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MediaTek First SoC Partner for Newly Launched Google's Mobile Services Program

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MediaTek announced that it is the first System-on-Chip (SoC) partner for Google's Mobile Services (GMS) Express, a newly launched program designed to provide approved Android software solutions, including GMS and Google Compatibility Test Suite (CTS) certification, to device makers.

As GMS Express’s first SoC partner, MediaTek can help device makers get to market more cost effectively and faster and ensure high-quality, consistent consumer experiences with AndroidTM applications and devices.

Under the new program, MediaTek provides device makers with a pre-tested, pre-certified, and fully compliant build of Android and GMS. For the past several months, MediaTek has already worked with several of its customers in connection with GMS Express. In fact, dozens of brands have already joined the GMS Express program.

MediaTek customers – OEMs and Original Design Manufacturers (ODMs) – can reduce the typical compatibility certification process from three months to four weeks. They also receive frequent security patches to reduce risks of device hacking.

MediaTek’s support of GMS Express is seamless because of its smartphone design expertise and experience working with the large, global Android customer base. MediaTek chipsets power more than 1.5 billion devices a year across a broad range of products including smartphones, TVs, voice assisted devices, routers and more.

MediaTek, the first SoC provider to support Google’s GMS Express program, has been a market innovator since the company first entered the mobile market with a mission to improve time-to-market and mobile ecosystem efficiency.

TL Lee, GM of MediaTek's Wireless Communications Business Unit
This program supports the entire Android community and ensures that from the program’s Original Equipment Manufacturers (OEMs) and their devices within the program, only pre-tested and certified Android builds appear in the marketplace to give consumers confidence they have a secure, first-class Android experience.

Jim Kolotouros, VP Global Android Partnership, Google 
We are excited by MediaTek’s leadership in connection with the GMS Express program, and enabling the OEM ecosystem to develop high quality devices more quickly, more cheaply, and more easily.

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