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Texas Instruments to Exit Mobile CPU Space for Smartphones, Tablets

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In a surprising announcement, the world’s third largest smartphone and tablet chip-maker Texas Instruments has announced it would begin to wind down its presence in the mobile processor space. Instead, Texas Instruments would be focusing its efforts on embedded systems despite a relatively successful run in a competitive mobile CPU space that’s becoming crowded with players like Qualcomm, NVIDIA, Samsung, and Apple.

TI-OMAP-DM5xNews of the exit comes at an investor meeting and it has been rumored for some time that TI would shift its strategic focus.

Texas Instruments’ processors have been seen on devices such as Motorola’s Droid series, the latest Amazon Kindle Fire HD, and Barnes & Noble’s Nook HD tablets.

Texas Instruments has been working on an OMAP 5 chipset, which is based on ARM Holdings’ architecture, and it’s unclear what the future of OMAP 5 will be.

With one less player in the market, there’s some concern how this may affect supply pricing, which may in the end impact consumer pricing for smartphones sold.

It’s also unclear how TI’s exit would impact Microsoft’s release with its Windows RT ARM-based edition of Windows.

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