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LG LS970 with Android 4.0 ICS and Quad-Core CPU Headed to Sprint

It looks like Samsung Galaxy S III won’t be the only Android flagship smartphone that Sprint plans to launch on its airwaves. The guys over at BriefMobile have been tipped on the upcoming LG LS970 device, which is a top tier Android phone that sports a large display and powerful processor. The good news is t...

9 May 2012
13:01 GMT

Samsung Rules the Dual Core ARM Processor Market

Korean giant Samsung is reportedly the ruler of the dual core ARM mobile processor market. This is no surprise, since the company is holding most of the smartphone market that is not Apple based. The analysis was done by Strategy Analytics and the results represent the market status of the year 2011. Dual core mob...

7 May 2012
18:17 GMT

TI’s OMAP 5 SoC Is No Match for a Quad-Core Cortex A9

When compared to dual-core processors, quad-core chips should be faster. After all, they do have double the number of cores. However, it appears that not all of them can actually deliver the expected performance, and the video embedded above proves it. What you can see there is a device powered by a Texas Instrum...

23 February 2012
14:11 GMT

Texas Instruments Reveals WiLink 8.0 Wireless Chips

Texas Instruments is one of the primary suppliers of chips that enable the sort of wireless connectivity all consumers have come to expect, and it looks like a new batch of such chips is ready to serve.Antennas may be the product component responsible for projecting wireless electromagnetic waves, but they are just ...

14 February 2012
13:31 GMT

Notion Ink Adam II Tablet Customizes Ice Cream Sandwich

The Adam tablet actually did well for itself, even without humongous marketing efforts, so Notion Ink is now working on a successor, called Adam II. Notion Ink has chosen not to tackle this new challenge alone, having instead set up a partnership with Texas Instruments. Instead of an NVIDIA Tegra platform, Ada...

21 January 2012
04:43 GMT

CES 2012: Windows 8 Demoed on Texas Instruments Tablet

Windows 8 will arrive with support for far more processor types than its predecessors. Microsoft said that before, and came to CES 2012 in Las Vegas with its pockets full of devices capable of proving so. The 2012 International Consumer Electronics Show offered Microsoft the possibility to show some of the capabil...

14 January 2012
10:41 GMT

Texas Instruments Intros Cheap $5 ARM Cortex-A8 Microprocessors for Android Devices

Texas Instruments plays a big role on the Android market, which is one of the reason the company comes up with new products several times during the year. The latest innovation introduced is called Sitara AM335x ARM Cortex-A8 and is probably the cheapest microprocessor available on the market at only $5.Even though t...

1 November 2011
04:35 GMT

Texas Instruments Makes Power Generator Chips for Mobile Devices

Texas Instruments wants to make it possible for all electronics to generate or harvest their own power, so it created a new integrated circuit (IC) called bq25503. Giving a device the ability to make its own energy is a key to making technology essentially self-sufficient, if one were to disregard the need for repa...

25 October 2011
09:25 GMT

Texas Instruments Proud to Power the Galaxy Nexus: “Number of Cores Does Not Rival Sophistication”

Although Samsung revealed that the next-generation Android 4.0 (Ice Cream Sandwich) device will be powered by a dual core 1.2 GHz processor, the Korean company did not reveal the manufacturer of the chipset.It's unclear who exactly decided that Android 4.0 operating system should run on an OMAP platform created ...

19 October 2011
10:25 GMT

Texas Instruments Buys National Semiconductor

Texas Instruments may have already controlled the largest share of the analog chip market, but this didn't stop it from offering to buy National Semiconductor for a huge sum of money about six months ago. Acquisitions are a common thing on the IT industry, especially ever since the establishment of the paten...

26 September 2011
05:10 GMT

Google Chooses Texas Instruments OMAP4 Chipset for Android ‘Ice Cream Sandwich’

It looks like Google and Texas Instruments are close to start a fruitful collaboration to offer Android fanatics the next iteration of the operating system, “Ice Cream Sandwich.” Although the partnership between the two companies have yet to be officially announced, it appears that a Texas Instruments ...

3 August 2011
03:02 GMT

Texas Instruments Trumpets 1.8 GHz ARM Processor

ARM chips have been aiming to reach higher performance levels and it looks like Texas Instruments made that wish come true somewhat by designing the OMAP4470 application processor.Since smartphones and tablets are so quickly evolving, application processors also seem to be cropping up.So far, the Qualcomm Snapdragon...

2 June 2011
05:30 GMT

Texas Instruments Takes on NVIDIA's Kal-El with the Upcoming 1.8GHz Dual-Core CPU

Texas Instruments has just announced its next-generation OMAP 4 platform processor that brings QXGA display resolution, HD UIs and twice the standard level of web browsing performance, which is intended to outperform NVIDIA's Kal-El quad-core processor. Even though rumors suggest that Google may put an end to...

2 June 2011
03:59 GMT

LG Optimus Black Arrives in South Korea

Introduced almost four months ago during the 2011 Consumer Electronics Show, the LG Optimus Black has just been released in South Korea. Also known as LG-KU5900, the smartphone hits the shelves one day after the 'grandiose' launch of Samsung's Galaxy S II. Although the phone might be overshadowed...

29 April 2011
04:07 GMT

USB-IF Certifies Four-Port USB 3.0 Host Controller

The USB Implementers forum has already certified quite a few SuperSpeed-ready devices, all things considered, but it looks like it finally got around to four-port host controllers as well, one developed by Texas Instruments to be exact.By now, users will well know of the SuperSpeed USB 3.0 connectivity standard and ...

11 April 2011
09:33 GMT

Texas Instruments Pays National Semiconductor $6.5 Billion

It isn't very often that multi-billion dollar transactions are carried out on the IT industry, or any industry for that matter, but announcements definitely get made when they do, as it happened with Texas Instruments and National Semiconductor.Although small transactions and licensing agreements happen all the...

5 April 2011
05:33 GMT

Texas Instruments Factories Damaged Badly by Japan Disaster

So far, most companies reporting what the disaster in Japan meant for them have been optimistic or reserved, but it seems Texas Instruments is one of the unlucky ones whose facilities, or at least one of them, was severely affected.Many things happened because of the disaster that struck Japan last week, and it seem...

15 March 2011
11:45 GMT

Texas Instruments DaVinci Line Welcomes Two New Video Processors

Texas Instruments is one of those companies that makes various sorts of processors, such as digital media chips, and it seems its DaVinci collection has just been expanded by two members.Texas instruments issued a press release, not long ago, in which it outlines the properties of the TMS320DM8168 and TMS320DM8148.T...

4 March 2011
04:55 GMT

Texas Instruments Grows 500 Micron Graphene Film

Texas Instruments is getting ready to manufacture the next generation of semiconductors as the company is currently perfecting a new method of growing graphene sheets which will eventually enable it to produce faster, smaller and lower power electronics based on carbon instead of silicon. According to EETimes, Te...

4 March 2011
04:49 GMT

MIT and Texas Instruments Develop Ultra Low-Power 28nm DSP Chip

At the International Solid-State Circuits Conference, which is scheduled to take place between 20 and 24 February 2011 in San Francisco California, Texas Instruments and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) will present a paper detailing design methodologies that could be used for the developments of a 28n...

21 February 2011
02:53 GMT

Texas Instruments Offers 8-Core Multimedia Solution

While processing units for personal computers are well enough known, media servers and video conferencing or broadcasting equipment also needs to stay up to date, and Texas Instruments claims to have created a solution meant for infrastructure applications.Texas Instruments has a certain little digital signal proces...

11 February 2011
11:00 GMT

Avnet Intros the Low-Cost Xilinx Spartan-6 LX9 FPGA MicroBoard Priced at $89

Avnet Electronics has just announced the availability of the Xilinx Spartan-6 LX9 FPGA microboard, a comprehensive kit created for designers who are looking to leverage the flexibility and customization capabilities of the Spartan-6 family of FPGA integrated circuits, but don't want to spend an arm and a leg in ...

3 February 2011
09:23 GMT

Texas Instruments Tackles NVIDIA's Tegra 2 With Dual-Core ARM Chip

Texas Instruments is said to be planning on assaulting the market for higher-frequency ARM central processing units by developing a certain dual-core chip based on the Cortex A9.While NVIDIA does seem to be holding a sort of monopoly on the so-called market for dual-core Cortex A9 chips, this situation will eventual...

13 January 2011
10:21 GMT

Texas Instruments Intros Dual-Core 1.5 GHz ARM Cortex-A9 CPU

Today, Texas Instruments announced officially the launch of the OMAP4440 applications processor, with impressive performance enhancements when compared to the company's OMAP4430 CPU. Among these improvements, we can count the speeds of 1.5 GHz per ARM Cortex-A9 MPCore the new CPU can achieve. The new OMAP4440 p...

8 December 2010
09:36 GMT

TES Presents Android 2.2 Froyo-Ready MAGiK

TES Electronic Solutions just issued a press release in which it reveals that it has finished updating its series of Media & Graphics Innovation Kits, items used in such things as electronic design serviced and manufacturing.What TES did was adopt the Texas Instruments DaVinci DM3730 media processor and combine it w...

3 November 2010
09:00 GMT

Texas Instruments Unleashes Two 1.5GHz Cortex A8 Based Chips

With an impressive number of manufacturers at work in order to develop the fastest processor possible, the ARM based CPU race is going really strong, Texas Instruments just announcing the industry's highest performing single-core Cortex A8 microprocessors, the 1.5GHz Sitara AM389x MPUs, specifically designed for...

20 October 2010
05:14 GMT

Intel Acquires Texas Instruments' Cable Modem Business

 Intel recently made a strong push on the flash storage market and has been quite arduously developing solid state drives, but it now appears to be planning a push in another area, that of providing voice, video and data content in homes, by acquiring the cable modem unit of Texas Instruments. Intel has already ...

16 August 2010
09:57 GMT

Texas Instruments Reveals Highly Configurable Blaze Tablet

With the tablet craze in full swing, makers of mobile devices and PCs alike are doing their best to bring out a suitable competitor to the Apple iPad. Virtually all major IT players have shown off or announced a variety of slates. Some of them are powered by the ARM architecture, while a few make use of the Intel pi...

25 June 2010
03:40 GMT

TI Adds nHD to the DLP Pico Suite

Texas Instruments DLP Products announced today at the GSMA Mobile World Congress in Barcelona the release of nHD, a new addition to its DLP Pico suite of chipsets. According to the company, the new nHD solution is meant to enable the development of the thinnest, smallest DLP Pico engines available so far, and is exp...

15 February 2010
12:51 GMT

Texas Instruments Trumpets DLP Pico Consumer Electronics

This year's Consumer Electronics Show has seen company after company launching entire product lines, or sets of product lines, each eagerly waiting to see the glee in consumers' eyes. Texas Instruments is proudly presenting its significant advancements in its award-winning DLP Pico technology, with more tha...

7 January 2010
09:04 GMT

Fabs Can Make Optical Chips, Say MIT Researchers

Although not yet perfected, MIT researchers used polysilicon-made waveguides and the same manufacturing facilities as semiconductor manufacturer Texas Instruments (TI) in order to create a chip that incorporated a large number of functional optical components. The MIT researchers' view is that, if they somehow m...

26 November 2009
09:01 GMT

TI Intros New OMAP-DM5x Coprocessors

Texas Instruments Incorporated announced recently the launch of two new models in the OMAP-DM5x family of coprocessors, the OMAP-DM515 and OMAP-DM525. According to the company, the new solutions are aimed at offering an enhanced experience to mobile phone users by delivering the same performance as the one offered by...

9 October 2009
04:46 GMT

Texas Instruments Reveals 720MHz Processor for Multimedia Devices

The market for portable media applications is getting increasingly interesting, especially since NVIDIA's low-power Tegra chip can be used to power both smartphones and new portable multimedia devices. On that note, Texas Instruments has just announced the introduction of a fresh, high-performance single-chip so...

29 September 2009
11:07 GMT

Always Innovating Touch Book Now Shipping

Trying to make itself noticed in a market that is currently dominated by all the Intel Atom and Windows XP-based netbooks, the 8.9-inch Touch Book from Always Innovating has now entered a new stage in its life and is available for shipping. Unlike most solutions on the market, this small ultraportable PC makes a stat...

3 August 2009
06:54 GMT

ARM Chip Makers Show Support for Google's Chrome OS

Following the announcement about the upcoming launch of Google's much-anticipated Chrome OS operating system, a number of reports have surfaced regarding the future of computing and the impact of Google's operating system on the industry. The announcement has received a favorable welcome from a number of in...

9 July 2009
09:06 GMT

TI's Mobile-Phone Platform Enables 1080p Video Recording

One of the most interesting new technologies unveiled at the Mobile World Congress in Barcelona is the mobile-phone platform from Texas Instruments, capable of recording 1080p video, shooting 20-megapixel images, and playing MP3 files for as long as a week on one battery charge. The new OMAP 4 platform uses ARM'...

17 February 2009
03:44 GMT

Faster Motherboards Are Fed With Copper Interconnects

A bunch of researchers in the United States have come out with copper interconnections for the next generation of integrated circuits, that are alleged to increase the efficiency of the chips' connections with motherboards and other types of external circuitry.The research team is comprised of Paul Kohl and Tho...

12 February 2008
11:13 GMT

Texas Instruments, MIT, Bring the 1000-Hour Cellphone

MIT and Texas Instruments engineers today unveiled a new microprocessor architecture that will power portable electronics and handhelds. The new chip design will be up to 10 times more energy-efficient than any other competitive model, and could revolutionize the entire mobile industry.The chip's design has been...

5 February 2008
03:34 GMT

On2 Technologies and Texas Instruments Collaborate on Mobile Video

On2 Technologies announced an agreement with Texas Instruments under which the two companies will collaborate to implement On2's TrueMotion VP6 and VP7 video compression formats on Texas Instruments' OMAP Platform and DaVinci technology for mobile handsets and digital video applications."This is a far reach...

28 November 2007
10:19 GMT

TI Shows Off Its Mobile Phone with Pico-Projector

Texas Instruments (TI) has presented at the CTIA Wireless 2077 show its digital light processing (DLP) "pico" projector. The device is integrated in a mobile phone and seems to work great, better than people might expect from a device squeezed in a small handset.The product will not be brought out on the market soon,...

25 September 2007
08:12 GMT

Nokia Brings Life into Its Chipset Development Strategy

Nokia has just announced that it plans to renew the chipset strategy they have been using until now. The Finnish company will introduce a licensing and multisourcing model meant to bring the company to a new competitive level on the handset production market.Nokia already holds a privileged place in the mobile phone ...

8 August 2007
03:03 GMT

Ericsson and Texas Instruments Bring Innovative 3G Solutions

Ericsson and Texas Instruments, the world leader in silicon solutions for wireless communications, have announced an agreement to form a strategic technology engagement in order to produce custom solutions for Open OS enabled 3G handhelds. This will help handheld producers to provide Open OS devices for the high-end ...

27 July 2007
08:53 GMT

Texas Instruments Is Developing Ultra Low Power Bluetooth Technology Products

Texas Instruments announced its intentions of developing products and solutions for Ultra Low Power (ULP) Bluetooth wireless technology, formerly known as Wibree. ULP Bluetooth technology, created as a result of the recent merger between the Wibree Forum and the Bluetooth Special Interest Group (SIG) is the first ope...

6 July 2007
09:51 GMT

Texas Instruments Goes Beyond 3G with the LTE Standard

As Wideband Code Division Multiple Access (W-CDMA) deployments continue to expand worldwide, Texas Instruments announced it is now looking beyond 3G to the Long Term Evolution (LTE) standard. An initiative of the Third Generation Partnership Program (3GPP), LTE encompasses higher data rates and flexibility in frequen...

19 April 2007
11:03 GMT

TI Introduces GPS Single-Chip Solution

Texas Instruments has announced a new single-chip device that aims to drive GPS applications onto mainstream mobile phones. Bearing the name of NaviLink 5.0 NL5350, the solution has a footprint of 25mm2 and delivers the industry's smallest solution as size with the lowest bill of materials so far, thus making G...

2 April 2007
10:10 GMT

DLP Pico-Projector, Almost Mobile Integrated

Texas Instruments will unveil a prototype of a DLP (Digital Light Processing) pico-projector during the 2007 CTIA Wireless Convention. TI's DLP pico-projector technology is supposed to change the way people view content on their mobile devices. The fingertip sized device (1.3 inch) comes with a trio of lasers an...

27 March 2007
07:57 GMT

Intel Still Top Dog on the Semiconductor Market in 2006

Although it has had somewhat of a long journey, with no pit stops, overworked and hungry for power, the Intel powerhouse made first spot in the 2006 ranking of semiconductor suppliers, says a study made by iSuppli Corporation.The company keeps constant track of what goes on the market through the help of some "100 gl...

16 March 2007
07:16 GMT


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