The race to be the best processor out there proves to be too much to handle for the company behind OMAP (Open Multimedia Applications Platform) System-on-Chips as they bid farewell to the mobile industry and to focus their attention to “a broader marketâ€. In line with this, Texas Instruments will be abandoning their OMAP lineup which serves as an engine for the likes of Samsung Galaxy Nexus, BlackBerry PlayBook and Amazon Kindle Fire and will shift to the industrial market which hopefully brings them a more lucrative business. One of the reasons why device manufacturers chose other chips instead of TI's OMAP lineup is because of the SoC's lack of built-in modem which adds to a device's cost of production which then leads to a pricier device. Read more in our articles including "Texas Instrument exits smartphone & tablet market" and "The biggest changes are coming to Android Auto".
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May 15, 2026The race to be the best processor out there proves to be too much to handle for the company behind OMAP (Open Multimedia Applications Platform) System-on-Chips as they bid farewell to the mobile industry and to focus their attention to “a broader marketâ€. In line with this, Texas Instruments will be abandoning their OMAP lineup which serves as an engine for the likes of Samsung Galaxy Nexus, BlackBerry PlayBook and Amazon Kindle Fire and will shift to the industrial market which hopefully brings them a more lucrative business.
One of the reasons why device manufacturers chose other chips instead of TI's OMAP lineup is because of the SoC's lack of built-in modem which adds to a device's cost of production which then leads to a pricier device.
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