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TI’s OMAP4440 processor brings two blazing Cortex-A9 cores to the table

Phones and tablets based on TI’s first production OMAP4 processor — the OMAP4430 — won’t even be on the market until early next year, but TI’s already planning ahead with the announcement of an upgraded chip that promises a 50 percent boost in overa…

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Nook Color processor revealed: ARM Cortex A8-based TI OMAP3621

Barnes & Noble provided most of the specs for the Nook Color when it launched the device on Tuesday, but notably absent was any word on the processor that powers the e-reader. Thankfully, Texas Instruments has now come out confirmed that the Nook …

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Can Intel Compete in a Mobile ARMs Race? [Fight]

Both Apple’s iPhone and iPad and Qualcomm’s Snapdragon chips are based on ARM architecture, as are almost all cell phone processors. But where is Intel and the x86? Can the world’s largest semiconduct…

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TI picks up first license for ARM’s Eagle CPU core, mass market devices still a couple of years off

The mythical next generation of ARM’s Cortex-A series, the Eagle, has made a reappearance in the news this week, but much of the mystery remains. Texas Instruments has now revealed itself as the first licensee of the new core, while also waxing poetic…

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