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Thursday, Mar 14, 2002
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Hardware Texas Instruments to work with Wipro, Sasken Our Bureau
BANGALORE, March 13 TEXAS Instruments Inc (TI) has announced that it will work with Sasken Communication Technologies and Wipro Ltd. The domestic companies, which will serve as MAP technology centres, will help the global IT company develop support applications for wireless handset manufacturers. OMAP is a trademark of TI which claims leadership position in digital signal processing and analog technologies. TI's family of OMAP application processors and wireless modems deliver voice and multi-media enhanced applications for the 2.5G (generation) and 3G wireless phones, PDAs and advanced mobile internee appliances. Talking to reporters here on Wednesday, Mr Gilles Delfassy, Senior Vice-President, TI, and Dr Biswadip Mitra, Managing Director of TI (India) Pvt Ltd, said besides these two, TI's worldwide network of independent OMAP technology centres are located at Bsquare, Seattle, Productivity Systems Inc, Texas, Helsinki-based Digia Inc and Teleca in Stockholm. The OMAP technology centres provide expertise in systems engineering in hardware, software development support, systems integration and offer deep knowledge and experience in high level operating system, including Symbian Operating System and Microsoft Windows CE. Both Sasken and Wipro will help in extending TI's development support for wireless handset manufacturers who use OMAP applications processors and modem technology for 2.5G and 3G mobile devices. The association will also enable software development companies in India to quickly create multimedia-rich wireless applications. Stating that the base of wireless subscribers was set to grow phenomenally as against the wireline subscribers in the coming decade, Mr Delfassy said ``today we are looking at the future of wireless communications and the role that TI and India can together play in this market. With its large technical manpower, India has the opportunity to play a major role in developing 2G and 3G applications.'' Answering questions, Mr Mitra clarified that TI would have its revenue stream from the sale of its chipsets for OMAHA platform, while the Indian companies would have to look to OEMs for systems integration services for their revenue stream. They had many choices to leverage the generic platform of OMAP to contribute to the different OEMs in wireless applications, said Mr Mitra, adding ``we do not get into their business models''.
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