Texas Instruments and Nokia Collaborate on Single-Chip Solution for Mobile Phones

Strategic Insights -

Texas Instruments Incorporated and Nokia announced a partnership to integrate a single-chip solution based on TI's Digital RF Processor (DRP) technology into future Nokia mobile phones. This cooperation aims to provide cost-effective advanced handsets, particularly in high-volume entry markets. The single-chip solution targets the mass-market voice-centric marketplace and will enable Nokia to increase its innovation and leadership position in the marketplace. The DRP technology, developed through TI's advanced 90nm CMOS manufacturing technology, simplifies radio frequency processing, reducing board space, extending battery life, and making for a more cost-effective, powerful, and versatile mobile phone.

Key Takeaways:

  • The partnership between Texas Instruments and Nokia will enable Nokia to offer cost-effective advanced handsets, especially in high-volume entry markets.
  • The single-chip solution targets the mass-market voice-centric marketplace and will enable Nokia to increase its innovation and leadership position in the marketplace.
  • TI's Digital RF Processor (DRP) technology simplifies radio frequency processing, reducing board space, extending battery life, and making for a more cost-effective, powerful, and versatile mobile phone.
  • The single-chip solution will target the entry-level mobile phone market, particularly in high-growth regions such as India and China.
  • The partnership aims to take cost, size, power, and performance optimizations to a higher level, especially for high-volume entry-level mobile phones.
  • TI's pioneering approach to wireless chip design applies digital technology to simplify radio frequency processing, making it more cost-effective and powerful.
  • The first GSM cellular phone call using TI's DRP technology was made in February 2002, proving the technology's effectiveness.
  • The single-chip solution reinforces TI's clear edge in integration, furthering TI's and its customers' competitive positions.
  • The technology roadmap includes a single chip solution for digital TV for mobile phones as well as future single chip solutions for GPS, wireless LAN, UMTS, and other air interfaces.
  • TI's already sophisticated and integrated DRP technology roadmap includes a single chip solution for Bluetooth connectivity, the BRF6100, announced in June 2002.
  • TI provides a breadth of silicon and software solutions, including complete chipsets and reference designs, OMAP application processors, and core digital signal processor and analog technologies built on advanced semiconductor processes.

Statistics:

  • 2002: TI announced its intention to integrate the bulk of handset electronics on a single chip, including digital baseband, SRAM, logic, RF, power management, and analog functions.
  • 2002: TI announced the BRF6100 Bluetooth(R) single chip, the first implementation of TI's DRP technology.
  • 2004: TI sampled the first product of the single-chip solution, developed through TI's advanced 90nm CMOS manufacturing technology.
  • December 2004: The first version of the single-chip solution sampled, targeting the mass-market voice-centric marketplace.
  • 2002-2004: TI made significant advancements in its DRP technology, paving the way for the single-chip solution partnership with Nokia.

Sources:

  • Texas Instruments Incorporated, Renee Fancher, USA, +1-214-567-7447, or rfancher@ti.com, or Marie-Helene Raynaud, Europe, +33-493-22-26-44, or mh-raynaud@ti.com
  • Nokia, Corporate Communications, +358-0-7180-34900, or press.office@nokia.com, or Technology Communications, +358-0-718028244, or both of Nokia