Texas Instruments (TI) has finally decided to withdraw from the business processor for smartphones and tablets. And, production OMAP processor series will not be continued by the company.

The main factor that led to the resignation move is the high competition. Currently, many smartphone manufacturers who prefer homemade processor Qualcomm or Nvidia. And, some of them trying to make it
yourself, for example is Samsung, Huawei or Apple.

The main thing that caused the other manufacturers do not choose OMAP processor absence 3G/4G modem onboard. This resulted in the smartphone manufacturers are adding radio chip. And of course this has resulted in increased production costs and increasing the battery's energy consumption.

Although lay production process OMAP processor, TI will continue to provide support to clients who use these products. But certainly, they will not do business development for OMAP chipset updates.

This plan was very shocking the public. Whereas previously many people who expect the emergence of TI OMAP 5 chipset which is the first chipset with dual-core A15.

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