Although Qualcomm was the first company to reach the 1 GHz mark with its Snapdragon CPU and Apple followed with the A4, Texas Instruments is ready to catch up, as they’ve announced the Cortex A8 1 GHz chipset. Based on 45nm technology, the AM3703 and AM3715 are follow-ups to the TI OMAP35x line, available in 600, 800 and 1000 MHz flavours.
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Aside from showcasing its OMAP4 solution and Blaze platform, Texas Instruments also came to Barcelona and Mobile World Congress 2010 with a fresh demo of its new gesture recognition technology. Future smartphones may be controlled by single or multiple finger gestures, or so claim TI’s officials.
The demo that gets presented in the video below...
Texas Instruments has just showed the world its OMAP 4 system on a chip solution, complete with a development platform for it, dubbed Blaze. First seen as a prototype earlier this month, Blaze is pretty cool and it comes with features that will be loved by developers, as you’ll find out after the break.
TI aims to promote new ways of interaction,...
We’re ready to reach the next level in cameraphone technology and since 12 megapixels didn’t seem enough, it seems that two new coprocessors will take it to the 20 megapixel level. The result will be 3G cameraphones with great resolution and Texas Instruments will be making these processors.
The new technology will also provide support...
Intel has just announced that it’ll supply chips for Nokia’s phones, as the two companies have signed a deal and partnership on this market. We remind you that Intel already has a deal with LG Electronics and it supplies processors for its mobile Internet devices.
This comes as a challenge towards Texas Instruments for the number one mobile...
The folks of Engadget had a look at Texas Instrument’s Zoom OMAP34x-II Mobile Development Platform, built by Logic and used by software developers who work on the OMAP3 chipset. This splendid device packs a 4.1 inch WVGA capacitive touchscreen LCD display, HDMI out, tons of connectivity options, 16 GB of storage and an SD card slot.
This device...