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News Release from: Texas Instruments (April 2001-March 2006) | Subject: OMAP2420 application processor
Edited by the Electronicstalk Editorial
Team on 09 November 2005
OMAP2 architecture powers Docomo 3G
handsets
Texas Instruments' OMAP2420 application processor has been selected for the new NTT Docomo's FOMA 902i series 3G handsets to provide advanced multimedia capabilities.
Texas Instruments' OMAP2420 application processor has been selected for the new NTT Docomo's FOMA 902i series 3G handsets to provide advanced multimedia capabilities Expected to launch later this year, these handsets will represent the first OMAP2-based mobile devices on the market
This article was originally published on Electronicstalk on 8 Nov 2004 at 8.00am (UK)
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With more than 15 million 3G subscribers in Japan, NTT Docomo is a leader in this rapidly accelerating 3G market place.
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To date, TI's OMAP application processors are used in the vast majority of NTT Docomo's 3G FOMA handsets today, with this latest 3G collaboration building on the long-standing relationship between TI and NTT Docomo.
These are the first OMAP2-based handsets available on the market and additional OMAP2-based FOMA phones are expected to follow.
Driven by the strength of its OMAP platform and wireless technology, TI's wireless solutions power more than 50% of 3G handsets shipped today.
According to a new report by research firm IDC, TI continues to lead in the overall applications processor space.
"Since IDC began tracking the market, TI has grown its position as the number one supplier of applications processors for wireless, with a 77% revenue share in 2004", said Allen Leibovitch, Program Manager, IDC.
"We see high-performance OMAP2-based applications processors enabling the latest multimedia features in leading-edge mobile devices".
Driving the next-generation of multimedia features the OMAP2420 is built on TI's OMAP2 'all-in-one' architecture, which provides the foundation for mobile device manufacturers to merge today's most compelling high-end consumer electronics in smartphones and other converged portable multimedia devices.
With OMAP2 processors, TI will deliver consumer electronics-quality applications to the wireless market.
These processors enable high-quality digital TV, hi-fi music with 3D effects, up to DVD-quality video, high-end gaming console functionality, best-in-class colour display, digital cameras with up to 6 megapixels, analogue and digital broadcast reception, high-speed wireless connectivity, greater than VGA resolution colour LCD displays and more.
In addition to delivering the most advanced multimedia features, OMAP2420 provides enhanced power and performance management through TI's SmartReflex solution.
TI's SmartReflex technologies incorporate a broad range of intelligent and adaptive hardware and software technologies that dynamically control voltage, frequency and power based on device activity, modes of operation and process and temperature variation.
This saves additional power without compromising end performance to run complex multimedia applications.
TI's OMAP2420 stand-alone application processor is the first device in the market place to exploit the ARM11 micro-architecture and is TI's second-generation of OMAP processors to use 90nm technology.
The OMAP2420 chip includes an ARM1136JS-F core, a TI programmable audio DSP, a TI imaging and video accelerator (IVA), an Imagination Technologies 2D/3D graphics accelerator offering up to 2 million polygons per second, integrated camera interface, M-Shield hardware-based security solution and more.
The OMAP2420 processor is production ready now and phones are expected to ship before the end of the year.
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