Today Texas Instruments announced it would “shift its wireless investment focus from products like smartphones to a broader market including industrial clients like carmakers,” a move that sent their shares down 3 percent. TI said they would continue to support their current customers, but they will not invest in supporting its customers future roadmap for tablets ... Read More »
It’s hard to believe it’s been almost two years since Motorola and Verizon announced the original Motorola Droid. But here we are today, witnessing the release of the third generation of Droids. Verizon and Motorola finally announced today the availability of the Motorola Droid 3. The device has been showing itself ... Read More »
NVIDIA and Qualcomm seem to get all the love when it comes to processors for Android devices. While these are powerful processors, we can’t forget about our good old friends from Texas Instruments (TI), whose processors are very capable of running all your content. To prove this, Texas Instruments has just ... Read More »
Not content with merely showing its many features on video, the Motorola Droid 3 just submitted itself to a full-body pat down from a Chinese blogger. The Chinese website XNA.cn got their hands on a Motorola Droid 3 this morning (known as the Milestone 3 overseas) and published everything you could ... Read More »
The Motorola Droid Bionic has been hiding since we last received word that it would be delayed and improved. This device will be the first dual-core, 4G LTE device on Verizon’s network, and many of you are very excited to see it coming. Though we know improvements are being added to ... Read More »
Today Texas Instruments announced their new OMAP5 platform, which they think till transform the concept of mobile because it “creates disruptive mobile experiences akin to Henry Ford’s transformative automobile advancements.” The 28nm OMAP5 platform features over a dozen specialized cores, but the ones we care about are the two Cortex-A15 MPcores which offer ... Read More »
Today Texas Instruments announced that their new OMAP4440 processor will be go into production by the second half of 2011. This dual-core processor boasts clock speeds of 1.5 GHz per ARM Cortex-A9 MPCore and it includes a PowerVR SGX540 GPU. The OMAP4440 also includes other feature enhancements like the ability to support 1080p stereoscopic 3D playback ... Read More »
When we first learned of the NOOKcolor, technical details were limited, but we are starting to learn more about what powers this unique e-reader hybrid. Barnes & Noble needed a powerful processor to power applications and video on the NOOKcolor’s high-resolution display so they teamed up with Texas Instruments to implement their Read More »
