TI’s all-in-one cellphone chip
p2pnet.net News:- Texas Instruments says it’s developed a new voice-only chip combining the radio-frequency receiver and transmitter functions of a cell phone.
Made for Nokia, the first-of-its-kind chip will be for sale by mid-2006 in China, India and, “other developing countries,” says the Houston Chronicle.
The chip will take up half the power and half the space of the two-chip set it replaces, TI spokesman Bill Krenik is quoted as saying, also stating that it’ll allow Nokia to make slimmer, less costly models.
“Krenik said TI believes the same approach, called digital RF (radio frequency) processor technology, can eventually be used in the kind of higher-end phones that many Americans crave,” states the report.
“But for now, he said, the prime market is overseas, and analysts agreed.”
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voice-only - TI chip aims for cheaper, slimmer cell phones, Houston Chronicle, January 21, 2005
