Amazon is in “advanced negotiations” to buy Texas Instruments’ mobile chip business, according to Israeli newspaper Calcalist, with the price expected to be in the billions of dollars range.
While Texas Instruments (TI) is no stranger to making great processors (see Samsung Galaxy Nexus), it appears it has lost interest in developing products in the wireless world and focus on other industries instead. TI shares recently fell 3-percent as investors are worried revenue prospects.
A couple of days ago, we heard Texas Instruments‘ (TI) plans on their supposed shifting away from the mobile chip market. This wasn’t merely a rumor either, as this news came straight from TI’s senior vice president. However, the statement in question may have been taken out of context.
TI (Texas Instruments) used this week's Consumer Electronics Show (CES) to demonstrate its freshly minted OMAP 5 processor, which it claims will be the first ARM Cortex-A15 product on the market. Shown off on an Android 4.0 smartphone reference platform, the SoC (system on chip) will support both tablets and thin-and-light notebooks, the chipmaker promised....
Notion Ink says it will switch to a Texas Instruments OMAP 4 processor running Android 4.0 for its next generation Adam II tablet. In other tablet news, Pew Research found the percentage of U.S.
WiLink 7.0 crams WiFi, Bluetooth, GPS, and FM functionality onto smaller cheaper chip...
Hardware Central: "The development of Linux on mobile devices may be poised to get a boost thanks to the formation of a new industry group called Linaro, backed by a consortium of chip vendors including ARM, Freescale, Texas Instruments, Samsung and ST-Ericsson."
More details have surfaced about Android 3.2, including support for seven-inch screens and Qualcomm processors. The release may appear on Amazon.com's Android tablets, which are rumored to be arriving in August bearing Texas Instruments processors and could hasten the fall of the monochrome Kindle....
TI (Texas Instruments) says it is now sampling the industry's first single chip to provide 802.11a/b/g/n, Bluetooth, FM transmit/receive, and a GPS receiver. The WiLink 7.0 reduces costs by 30 percent, trims size by 50 percent, and has hardware mechanisms that cancel out any interference between ra...
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