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News Release from: Imagination Technologies | Subject: OMAP2420 application processor
Edited by the Electronicstalk Editorial
Team on 08 November 2005
TI CPU gives handsets multimedia
capabilities
Imagination Technologies reports that Texas Instruments' OMAP2420 application processor has been selected to power NTT Docomo's new 3G FOMA 902i series handsets.
Imagination Technologies reports that Texas Instruments' OMAP2420 application processor has been selected to power NTT Docomo's new 3G FOMA 902i series handsets TI's OMAP2420 incorporates the PowerVR MBX 2D/3D graphics core and fully programmable VGP vertex processor core licensed by TI from Imagination Technologies
This article was originally published on Electronicstalk on 17 Sep 2003 at 8.00am (UK)
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TI's OMAP2420 has been selected for the new NTT Docomo FOMA 902i series 3G handsets to provide advanced multimedia capabilities.
Expected to launch later this year, these handsets will represent the first mobile devices based on OMAP 2 on the market.
Additional OMAP2-based FOMA phones are expected to follow.
Under the terms of its licensing arrangements Imagination receives license fees and royalty revenues on SoCs incorporating Imagination's IP shipped by partners.
TI states that driven by the strength of its OMAP platform and wireless technology, its wireless technologies power more than half of 3G handsets shipped today.
With more than 15 million 3G subscribers in Japan, NTT Docomo is a leader in the rapidly accelerating 3G market place.
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