NEW YORK-Texas Instruments reaffirmed its second-quarter outlook, hoping for a 10-percent leap from the first quarter, although Merrill Lynch downgraded its shares to "neutral" from "buy."The company says it expects earnings of 5 cents per share.
DALLAS—Widcomm Inc. and Texas Instruments Inc. unveiled a Bluetooth USB dongle reference design allowing wireless connectivity between a personal computer and peripherals without the need for software installation and configuration.The companies said the reference design supports up to 7 piconet links and up to...
MISSISAUGA, Ontario—Wireless security solutions provider Certicom said Texas Instruments has licensed its products for TI's OMAP platform for handsets, personal digital assistants and advanced mobile Internet appliances."Both carriers and users of 2.5 and 3G mobile devices powered by OMAP processors will benefit from the...
TUCSON, Ariz.-Texas Instruments said it has introduced a 14-bit, 62-MSPS CMOS analog-to-digital converter for wireless communications as well as imaging and instrumentation applications."Specific applications include base station receivers, digital radio, professional studio cameras, magnetic resonance imaging, spectrum analyzers and optical performance monitoring," said TI...
DALLAS-Texas Instruments said it has introduced a new development kit for its OMAP processing platform to allow wireless software developers and device manufacturers to create and demonstrate applications for 2.5 and third-generation devices."With the innovator Development Kit for the OMAP platform, TI will help...
STOCKHOLM, Sweden—Ericsson AB and Texas Instruments have signed an agreement to make reference designs for GPRS and 3G platforms based on TI's silicon technology as an extension of a memorandum of understanding both companies signed last September."Ericsson will offer third-generation mobile reference design platforms...
BEIJING-Texas Instruments will provide the chipset technology for a new entrant in the Chinese mobile-phone business, Legend Holdings Ltd., which entered a joint venture with Xiamen Overseas Chinese Electronics Company Ltd.The joint venture, which will offer GSM phones, plans to carve out a niche...
CANNES, France-Nokia Corp. and Texas Instruments Inc. will offer mobile handset manufacturers and application developers a complete open and standards-based reference platform, combining Nokia's Series 60 software and development kit, TI's OMAP processor-based reference platforms and development kit, and the Symbian operating system, the...
REDMOND, Wash.-Action Engine Corp. announced its Mobile Services Framework will work on Texas Instruments' OMAP wireless application processors, a move the company said will allow wireless carriers, device makers and system integrators to create compelling wireless data applications and services."With the Mobile Services Framework...
WOODBURY, N.Y.-Comverse and Texas Instruments Inc. announced Comverse's enhanced messaging services will operate on TI's OMAP platform for 2.5 and 3G wireless devices.By combining Comverse's platform with TI's OMAP processors, device manufacturers and operators can reduce deployment time of applications including mobile e-mail, multimedia...
WASHINGTON—A leading public-safety organization today told the Federal Communications Commission it has serious concerns about potential interference from ultra-wideband transmissions to radio systems used by police, firefighters and emergency medical workers and to GPS-based technologies used to locate emergency callers.The Association of Public-Safety Communications...
The personal digital assistant and wireless data device markets shook last week under a series of major announcements that served to puzzle, jar and-in most cases-hearten Wall Street and the wireless industry.The handheld computing industry has suffered through the past year along with the...
DALLAS-Texas Instruments Inc. says SK Telecom of Korea has selected its OMAP-based McubeWorks reference designs for 2.5G and third-generation cdma2001x networks.The company says SK Telecom plans "to conduct field trials of this multimedia service reference design providing CDMA wireless customers with a network...
LAS VEGAS-Texas Instruments threw its support behind the open mobile architecture initiative launched by Nokia Corp. and other industry leaders."TI is pleased to support Nokia and other industry leaders in order to ensure a balanced business ecosystem, which is built on open industry standards,"...
DALLAS-Texas Instruments has unveiled a power supply solution that offers low noise for personal digital assistants and other handheld devices.The new 1.8-volt input low dropout regulators will make system design with off-the-shelf batteries easier, more efficient and less expensive, according to the company.
DALLAS-Texas Instruments and Advanced Micro Devices Inc. posted quarterly losses, while warning of more losses in the next quarter.TI posted a net loss of $117 million, or 7 cents a share, compared with a net income of $676 million, or 38 cents a share,...
TUCSON, Ariz.-Texas Instruments said it has unveiled converters with the lowest noise for wireless devices such as cell phones, personal digital assistants, and 802.11 PCMCIA cards."By reducing power supply noise, the TPS6024x series of switched-cap converters suppresses sideband interference and boosts channel locking, which...
TOKYO-Texas Instruments said it is rolling out a family of digital-to-analog converters that extend battery life for consumer audio applications in mobile phones, personal digital assistants and other wireless devices."They are multifunctional and capable of mixing the voice input with the DAC output for...
NEW YORK-Texas Instruments has begun commercial shipments of its TMS320C64x Digital Signal Processor core, which operates at up to 600 MHz and consumes less than one watt of power, said Greg Delagi, vice president and manager of worldwide digital signal processing.Customers using the new...
SHERMAN, Texas-Texas Instruments Inc. said it has developed the fastest family chip that can enhance the overall speed of all networking systems including broadband, data storage and video imaging applications.The products, the 3.3-V DSP-Sync First-In, First-Out, ensures efficiency by preventing digital signal processors from...
DALLAS-L.M. Ericsson said it has agreed to combine Texas Instruments' semiconductors with its mobile platforms in a memorandum of understanding."TI's wireless digital signal processor and analog products and proven semiconductor manufacturing have enabled superior performance in Ericsson phones for more than a decade," said...
TUCSON, Ariz.-Texas Instruments said it is rolling out a new family of 125-MSPS dual digital-to-analog converters for cellular and paging base stations, point-to-point microwave systems, wireless local loop, wireless local area networks and cable modems.The company said the product family "gives customers a higher...
Two of the world's leading chip makers last week announced deals they said would lead to the creation of faster and more efficient processors for 2.5- and third-generation mobile devices.Texas Instruments Inc. and Intel Corp. separately said they would license microprocessing technology from ARM...
Palm Inc. last week announced a deal with some of the country's biggest chip makers to design a pre-packaged chip architecture for Palm OS-based personal digital assistants, a move Palm said will speed up the design and development time for the company's licensees and...
