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Motorola (News - Alert), Inc., and Texas Instruments Incorporated are expanding their strategic relationship to include 3G, WiMAX and OMAP technologies in the design and development of new, experience-optimized mobile devices. Motorola is considered a leader in mobile communications and seamless mobility solutions and Texas Instruments (News - Alert) is considered a leader in silicon solutions for wireless communications. Experts in the industry believe that this move could help TI to regain lost ground in its ailing wireless group business.

 

The expanded relationship is being viewed as a step to cement TI’s place at Motorola’s side in the handset market. Earlier, TI had 3G partnership with Ericsson Mobile Platforms (EMP). The partnership shrunk as EMP announced a 3G agreement with STMicroelectronics (News - Alert).

 

The new, expanded relationship makes use of the intellectual property from both Motorola and TI and it also encompasses the current, emerging and the future wireless standards. As part of this expanded partnership, Motorola will develop 3G handsets based on a TI customized 3G solution. This will include processors from TI’s OMAP 3 architecture, which are known for their power-efficiency and high-performance. In addition to this, the 3G handsets will also include 3G and 3.5G building blocks from both Motorola and TI.

 

TI will support Motorola’s mobile WiMAX initiative by providing assistance in the development of a customized Motorola WiMAX solution, high-performance analog components, digital design elements, manufacturing process and fabrication expertise and RF solutions. The major area of focus of this solution will be the core 802.16e mobile WiMAX functionality, which supports voice, video and data for mobile applications that are low on power. Motorola plans to launch new mobile devices in 2008 and this solution is expected to support the manufacturing of these devices.

 

This solution will be produced in 65nm.

 

In the evolving mobile market of the modern world, there is a growing demand for handsets with multimedia-rich capabilities. To cater to this demand, Motorola has selected solutions from TI’s OMAP 2 and OMAP 3 product portfolio and OMAP-Vox family. This will also include the OMAPV1030 GSM/GPRS/EDGE chipset and the OMAPV1035 GSM/GPRS/EDGE single-chip solution from the “eCosto” platform. Motorola plans to use TI’s OMAPV1035 solution in new low-cost multimedia mobile devices which will hit the market by 2008. It also plans to use TI’s OMAPV1030 chipset in new mid-range multimedia mobile devices. These handsets will be available in the market later this year.

 

 

 

 

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