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Amazon Kindle Fire Is Loaded With TI Chips
The Amazon.com, Inc. (NASDAQ:AMZN) Kindle Fire has gotten a tear-down by iFixit.com. It turns out that the device is packed with Texas Instruments Incorporated (NYSE:TXN) chips. This is good news for the company since they are facing intense rivalry from Qualcomm and Nvidia.
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Texas Instruments Acquiring National Semiconductor For $6.5 Billion
Texas Instruments Incorporated (NYSE:TXN) is acquiring National Instruments Corp (Public, NASDAQ:NATI) for $6.5 billion. Both TI and NI are known for building “analog” processors, a computer chip that converts data from temperature, light intensity, and shifting magnetic fields into digital data that computers can interpret. These chips are essential for cameras and phones.
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Texas Instruments Adding WiFi To Graphing Calculator
According to a document that passed through the FCC, Texas Instruments is adding WiFi to the TI-Nspire CX Navigator graphing calculator. It will connect to the bottom of the Nspire line of graphing calculators, which will give them instant WiFi capabilities. You kids with your rap music… Back in my day, TI-89s were the greatest calculators in the world.
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Microsoft Announces Next Version Of Windows Supports System On A Chip (SoC)
Microsoft Corporation (NASDAQ:MSFT) made an announcement today that the next version of the Windows operating system will support the System on a Chip (SoC) architectures, which include ARM-based systems from their partners: NVIDIA Corp., Qualcomm Inc., and Texas Instruments. Intel and AMD will continue work on low-power SoC designs that support Windows on the x86 architecture. Below is the full press release:
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Texas Instruments Ups The Processor Ante With OMAP4440
Texas Instruments Incorporated (NYSE:TXN) has announced the OMAP4440 processor today. This processor promises a 50% boost in overall performance from the OMAP4430. The OMAP4440 has two Cortex-A9 based cores s high as 1.5GHz. The 4430 maxes out at 1GHz. This will also help webpage loading time to decline 30%. The OMAP4440 will be available in Q1 of next year. [Engadget]
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Texas Instruments Blaze Tablet Launching In August
Texas Instruments Incorporated (NYSE:TXN) is releasing the Blaze Tablet in August, which features the OMAP4. The TI Blaze Tablet has WLAN, Bluetooth, GPS, and FM radio. It also has multiple external camera modules, and an external DLP pico-projector. The tablet is a 10.4-inch XVGA (1024×768) LCD touchscreen display, two USB ports, 1GB lpDDR2 memory, and 32GB eMMC. Other features include HDMI port, three tricolor status LEDs used as backlight, two mass vibration motors, serial interface, “lock” switch, four digital microphones, 3-axis accelerometer, 3-axis gyro, proximity sensor, digital compass, etc. [SlashGear]
Palm Pre Helps Boost TI’s Sales Growth
This past week Texas Instruments raised the outlook for their sales for the second quarter. Demand for smartphones such as the Palm Pre along with analog chips helped drive up sales. TI said on Monday that they expect revenue to be between $2.30 and $2.5 billion. The previous estimate was between $1.95 and $2.40 billion.
The TI 600MHz OMAP 3430 processor is the core of the Palm Pre. TI also provides the power management supplies, audio equipment, and the USB silicon used in the Pre. Earlier this week, Sprint said that the Pre helped them break a sales record.
Texas Instruments competes against companies such as Qualcomm, Samsung, and Marvell. Intel has implied that they will be getting into the smartphone market by 2011 too. The Apple iPhone processor is supplied by Samsung but is branded by Apple.
According to CNET, the chip in the Pre is superscalar in design and is based on the Cortex-A8 core. ARM is the company behind the Cortex-A8. The 3430 processor has a dedicated level-2 cache that has the ability to execute twice as many instructions per clock cycle over chips in the past. The graphics accelerator in the Pre is a Powervr SGX 2D/3D.
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