DALLAS-Texas Instruments Inc. and STMicroelectronics have come together to establish an open standard with the Open Mobile Application Processor Interfaces for application processors targeting 2.5G and third-generation mobile phones, personal digital assistants and other portable and multimedia products.
Both companies said they intend to invite operating system vendors, middleware vendors, software application developers, hardware peripheral manufacturers and other players to embrace the standard.
“It is a significant step toward our shared vision of a truly interoperable mobile multimedia world where the end user can access any service on any network using any kind of mobile terminal,” said Aldo Romano, corporate vice president and general manager of ST’s telecom, peripherals and automotive groups.
