Robert Levy
01-20-2004, 07:09 PM
<div class='os_post_top_link'><a href='http://www.prnewswire.com/cgi-bin/stories.pl?ACCT=SVBIZINK3.story&STORY=/www/story/01-20-2004/0002092307&EDATE=TUE+Jan+20+2004,+10:22+AM' target='_blank'>http://www.prnewswire.com/cgi-bin/stories.pl?ACCT=SVBIZINK3.story&STORY=/www/story/01-20-2004/0002092307&EDATE=TUE+Jan+20+2004,+10:22+AM</a><br /><br /></div>"Extending its line of sleek, small smartphone reference designs, Texas Instruments Incorporated announced today its first complete EDGE (Enhanced Data Rates for GSM Evolution) chipset and reference design. Utilizing the company's industry-leading OMAP(TM) platform, TI is first to introduce a complete EDGE smartphone chipset and reference design, giving customers the ability to quickly and cost effectively deliver flexible EDGE-based smartphones, feature phones and PDAs, all within a footprint one-half the size of a business card. As with all OMAP chips, developers and software designers can re-use and build upon existing software.<br /><br />With up to three times the data rate throughput of current GSM/GPRS devices, the TCS3500 chipset delivers the performance required to enable high-quality EDGE-enabled applications such as multimedia, gaming, camera functionality, and video. The TCS3500 chipset is the first of a portfolio of EDGE solutions TI is developing to allow customers to optimally address multiple market segments."<br /><br />It's probably going to be a while before this gets from being a reference design to being incorporated into a retail device, but we are now one step closer to achieving the dream of high-speed wireless data.