No more OMAP chipsets
TI OMAP 5

Mobile gamers particularly keen on devices with OMAP chipsets can break down in tears – Texas Instruments is leaving the market.

Texas Instruments has decided to take the system-on-chip manufacturing for tablets and smartphones to another level. This means that there will be not just mobile casino games instruments powered by OMAP chipsets, but other devices as well.

Despite less and less smartphone manufacturers using the OMAP SoCs, choosing Qualcomm boards instead, the company still sees a future in the OMAP platform. Apple and Samsung developed their own chipsets: A6 and Exynos, now powering the most powerful mobile casino monsters.

The absence of built-in 3G/4G modem on the OMAP chipset could pose a problem for the chipsets future, but hopefully the OMAP 5 will solve that. This absence has seriously hindered the advancement of real money mobile casino gambling and made life of smartphone manufacturers really hard.

The smartphone giants were forced to include additional radio chips in the smartphones, which increases production costs, battery consumption, not to mention space.

Texas Instruments revealed that the company will be shifting “…to a broader market including industrial clients like carmakers”. Specifics are lacking from this statement, which left investors wondering what the management actually meant by that.

Naturally, Texas Instrument will continue to provide support to its existing clients, but will drastically decrease the number of employees involved in OMAP chipset development.

TI OMAP 5 chipset is still scheduled to become the first SoC to feature the dual Cortex-A15 CPU, sources close to the manufacturer suggest an early 2013 launch date for the upcoming chipset.