Texas Instruments officials have already said the company would be moving away from smartphone and tablet chips, instead focusing on the embedded markets including industrial devices and automotive computers. Now the company is taking a major step in that direction by eliminating 1700 jobs. Reuters reports that’s about 5 percent of the company’s workforce. The […]
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6 new TI OMAP 5 ARM Cortex-A15 system-on-a-module designs coming soon
Texas Instruments may be scaling back its efforts to get its chips into consumer products. But the company isn’t sitting on its hands. Instead TI is aiming its next-gen chips at industrial development. Today TI unveiled 6 new system-on-a-module designs that will be available in early 2013. They’re all basically computer boards with TI OMAP […]
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Texas Instruments shows off a Windows RT notebook prototype
Microsoft’s upcoming Windows RT operating system is designed to run on devices with ARM-based processors including iPad-like tablets. But while most of the prototypes we’ve seen so far are tablets, Windows RT should be able to run on any device with a supported ARM-based chip. Texas Instruments has started showing off a Windows RT notebook prototype from […]
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TI OMAP 5 processors coming soon(ish)
Texas Instruments plans to start sending samples of its new OMAP 5 processors to partners next week. The company also unveiled a reference design for an Android phone based on the new ARM Cortex-A15 dual core processor. The 28nm chip is a dual core processor with clock speeds as high as 2 GHz, but it […]
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Archos: 1.5 GHz tablets not coming until 2012
This week Archos started selling the new Archos 80 G9 tablet with an 8 inch display and Google Android 3.2 Honeycomb operating system. When the company first introduced the tablet and its larger sibling, the Archos 101 G9 with a 10.1 inch display, the company said both would be available with 1.5 GHz dual core […]
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Texas Instruments announces OMAP4470 chip for Windows, Android, Linux
Qualcomm isn’t the only company working on ARM-based chips that will support Windows 8. But while Qualcomm has announced that chips that were already in the pipeline will be able to run Microsoft’s next-generation operating system, Texas Instruments is unveiling a whole new processor. The TI OMAP4470 is a multicore chip with speeds up to […]
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Texas Instruments unveils plans for OMAP 5 2GHz dual core chips
Remember when words like gigahertz were used for computer chips and you really didn’t know that much about the chip powering your phone? That’s all changed in recent years, with low power ARM-based chips strutting their stuff with clock speeds of 1 GHz and above, multi-core chip designs, and ARM based chips showing up in […]
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Leading ARM-based smartphone, tablet chips compared
Qualcomm Snapdragon, Samsung Hummingbird, TI OMAP, NVIDIA Tegra… you see these names a lot these days, as they’re the chips powering the newest, most powerful Android smartphones and upcoming tablets. But while most of these chips run at clock speeds between 800 MHz and 1.2 GHz, we’ve moved far past the point where you can […]
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Texas Instruments introduces multicore 1.5GHz ARM-based CPU
Texas Instruments has just unveiled its latest mobile chip, and the new OMAP4440 kind of makes NVIDIA’s blazing fast 1GHz dual core Tegra 2 chip seem like last year’s news. The TI OMAP4440 has twin 1.5GHz ARM Cortex-A9 cores… but it also has two ARM Cortex-M3 low power chips to handle less resource-intensive tasks, while […]
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Texas Instruments promises to deliver next-gen ARM chips
This shouldn’t come as a shock to anyone, but chip maker Texas Instruments has announced plans to build new processors based on the next-generation plans from ARM. The next-gen ARM Cortex A series processors are code-named as Eagle and they’ll be officially unveiled later this year. At the moment, we don’t really know anything about […]