Product category: Microprocessors, Microcontrollers and DSPs
News Release from: Texas Instruments (April 2001-March 2006) | Subject: OMAP processors
Edited by the Electronicstalk Editorial Team on 05 February 2003
Processors boost wireless application
performance
Five new OMAP processors increase the performance of advanced applications that include graphics, multimedia and Java as much as eightfold while decimating power drain in wireless handsets and PDAs.
Texas Instruments has unveiled five new OMAP processors with on-chip security, that increase the performance of advanced applications that include graphics, multimedia content, and Java as much as eightfold while reducing standby current as much as tenfold in wireless handsets and PDAs With these new application processors, mobile device manufacturers can design smaller, more secure and more economical devices with longer battery life and faster multimedia applications
This article was originally published on Electronicstalk on 28 Jul 2004 at 8.00am (UK)
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