TI stuffs WiFi, GPS, Bluetooth and FM radios on a single chip, UWB and LTE are like 'hello?'
By Darren Murph 
posted February 9th 2010 10:22AM
posted February 9th 2010 10:22AM
posted February 9th 2010 10:22AM
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Awesome!
@werty1432k i know. but it took a wile, i dont know why
@oralfredo Yeah, it just.. makes sense.
Yeah, but HP and Dell will still make you add them separately into your cart for extra $$ each.
@werty1432k It "reduces...bragging rights by 894%" ?
I presume the sentence is meant to read:
reduces costs by 30 percent, size by 50 percent and increases bragging rights by 894 percent.
@FORDY Yeah completely didn't make sense.
@FORDY Glad someone else caught that.
@werty1432k
I enjoy learning
@FORDY
Maybe it reduces bragging rights because everyone will have this now. Being so small and cheap there is no reason not to!
But probably just an error.
@werty1432k
are CSR doing something like this yet? I thought they are the market leaders.
@werty1432k
I want this in both my next PC/Laptop and MP3 player.
@werty1432k
It would be more awesome if they included an ATSC tuner.
@FORDY
I wanna know where it says that Engadget blog posts are not allowed to be edited. This kind of error is brain-dead simple to correct.
@FORDY
Also you cant logically reduce braggin rights by more than 100%.
This would make more sense to say it will give you 8.94 time the original bragging rights about your mobile device - or something like that.
its actually just awkward..
Cooool
@SnApple
With all that being handled by one chip that free's up some space in cell phones to do other things...
@PlatinumSkeet Like multitask.
@SnApple YUUUZZZZ
Alright, My TI-83 will soon be able to surf the interwebs and I can get a car dock and use it as a GPS.
Sweet!
Nice
DO WANT!
Too bad i was going to buy a phone sometime within the next 1 or 2 month, hopefully there will be somethin new out 'till then. Android-based of courcse.
Unfirtunately i guess that chip wont be in there...
T.I. Rock Stars...
uuhh this chip will be HOT , you will need a coler
My bet is they'll be going into mobile phones with FM transmit/recieve disabled... shortly followed by the hacks to enable them
@RioRyan
Erm why? Lot's of phones have FM recieve. FM transmit will certainly be an excellent addition. ByeBye Griffin
@Jimbob
My N86 has fm transit, I wouldn't buy a phone without it now, it's very handy
This makes my pants happy.
@sigwo
happy to be all wet?
Woah, FM receive AND transmit? Nice!
@Alex
The N900 does this already.
@Xen
But does the N900 do it all from one chip?
I think the value here is lighter, thinner devices, not just capabilities.
I love Texas Instruments! I am looking at their headquarters out my window now. {Swoon}
Put this in a phone with an AMOLED 1080p capacitive touchscreen and actually enable the FM transmit and receive and I'd pay anything for it.
I'll take one of these in the ZuneHD 2
fancy fancy. now there is no reason anymore to produce devices with only a half functionality..
Wait it REDUCES bragging rights, that sucks
Throw in DAB and I am in.
Here we go! Now let's pack 3G into it and make baby phones!
@akarol
No love for LTE?
Would be nice to see one of these make it into an iPod Touch.
"Purportedly, this device reduces ... bragging rights by 894 percent."
How can you reduce anything by more than 100 percent, let alone 894 percent?
@majorfracture
I hope they meant to insert the word 'increases' right before 'bragging.' Otherwise, maybe TI has achieved a new method of measuring inverse bragability (new word?) in which the world has been turned inside-out and reductions of greater than 100% are possible. My, oh my, it appears my imagination has meandered again.
@majorfracture
its called parallelism, and this sentence lacks it.
now thats what i call progress. i never heard about TI before oh i saw a calculator and that about it. i think they are big in US but not in Europe ?
i am not sure about it.
But great product
@timmyjan You're pretty much right, except they are fairly big in the "chip" industry. But you don't always necessarily know who makes the stuff inside your whatever device.
@timmyjan TI is the 4th largest semiconductor vendor in the world and aldo the inventor of the integrated circuit.
@pachi72 ...and DSPs, and analog and a lot of other chips.
add 3G then we are talking.
and put that in the next PSP. DS , and new laptops.
this chip will do well in a phone or a netbook
Holy crap, *negative* bragging rights? Does it wrap around and cause 65535% bragging rights?