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TI’s multicore DSPs sink to new power lows
EE Times reports TI said its C66x KeyStone-based multicore DSPs were its highest performing yet, at 16 GFLOPs/W, while also being fairly straightforward to program, making them well suited to researchers working in oil and gas exploration, financial modeling and molecular dynamics.
TI talks future-proofing for Omap
EE Times reports that Tomorrow’s mobile application processor will not only be capable of rendering holographic displays, high-definition augmented reality, real-time voice translation, natural speech interaction and multi-view synthesis, but may also be able to handle neuro, fuzzy-based and even humanistic intelligence according, to Texas Instruments Inc.
Analyst: Infineon, TI are second tier in mobile chips
EE Times reports Infineon, Marvell, Renesas and Texas Instruments are forming the second tier of chip suppliers to the mobile phone industry and the mobile business units of these companies are potentially liable to merger and acquisition activity, according to Mike Bryant, an analyst with Future Horizons.
Companies with even less [...]
Baseband Market Share by Revenue
Source: Merrill Lynch, BofA, IDC
The exit of Freescale and TI has left the baseband market concentrated around six vendors: Qualcomm, Mediatek, Infineon, Marvell, ST-Ericsson and Broadcom.
While we expect Qualcomm to further consolidate its high market share (through an increased presence at Motorola, share gains at Nokia), we believe that emerging vendors, namely Broadcom and Mediatek [...]
mimoOn demonstrates LTE for pico base stations based on Texas Instruments’ DSPs
Duisburg, Germany – 9 February, 2010 – mimoOn, a pioneer in LTE software implementation for programmable radio platforms, announced that it will be demonstrating LTE for pico base stations at Mobile World Congress (MWC) in Barcelona next week. mimoOn will showcase its advanced LTE PHY implementation running on TI’s DSPs, February 15-18, 2010, in the [...]
Texas Instruments collaborates with Continuous Computing and mimoOn for HSPA and LTE femtocells
Integration of third parties’ software with TI DSPs offers femtocell OEMs reduced costs and faster time to market
Femtocells World Summit, LONDON (June 23, 2009) – Texas Instruments Incorporated (TI) (NYSE:TXN) announced today the selection of Continuous Computing®, a leader in wireless protocol software, and mimoOn GmbH, a leader in software defined [...]
Texas Instruments unites speed and efficiency with industry’s fastest dual, 14-bit ADC
Texas Instruments Incorporated (TI) (NYSE: TXN) announced a dual, 14-bit analog-to-digital converter (ADC) at 250 MSPS (mega samples per second) to deliver a premier combination of wide signal bandwidth, high dynamic performance and low power consumption. The ADS62P49 achieves 73-dBFS signal-to-noise ratio (SNR) and 85-dBc spurious-free dynamic range (SFDR) at an input frequency of 60 [...]
Sandbridge SDR Selected as ACE/EE Times Insight Award Finalist
Under the category of Most Innovative Mobile Processor, Sandbridge Technologies SB3500 was selected as one of the EE Times Insight Award 2008 finalists.
Here is the full list:
Sandbridge SB3500 Flexible Baseband Processor
Intel 45nm Atom Processor
Qualcomm QSD8650 Mobile Processor (Snapdragon Platform)
Samsung S5L8900B01 Applications Processor
Texas Instruments 65nm OMAP3530 Applications Processor
I wonder if a “productivity factor” can be used [...]
SDR software mounts TI’s LTE-ready chip
EE Times reports that mimOn has ported its LTE software to a TI TMS320TCI648x targeting femtocell and macro basestations.