2nd Nov 2005 07:00
Imagination Technologies Group PLC02 November 2005 Imagination Technologies Group plc Imagination Technologies' PowerVR MBX set to ship in new NTT DoCoMo MobilePhones Texas Instruments' OMAP2420 Enabled NTT DoCoMo FOMA(R) Handsets In Japan FirstTo Ship With OMAP(TM) 2 London, UK: Imagination Technologies Group plc ("Imagination"; (LSE:IMG)) - aleader in System on Chip Intellectual Property ("SoC IP") - is pleased to reportthat Texas Instruments' ("TI") has announced that TI's OMAP2420 applicationprocessor has been selected to power NTT DoCoMo's new 3G FOMA 902i serieshandsets. TI's OMAP2420 incorporates the PowerVR MBX 2D/3D graphics core and fullyprogrammable VGP vertex processor core licensed by TI from ImaginationTechnologies. TI's OMAP2420 has been selected for the new NTT DoCoMo FOMA 902i series 3Ghandsets to provide advanced multimedia capabilities. Expected to launch laterthis year, these handsets will represent the first OMAP 2-based mobile deviceson the market. Additional OMAP 2-based FOMA phones are expected to follow. Under the terms of its licensing arrangements Imagination receives license feesand royalty revenues on SoCs incorporating Imagination's IP shipped by partners. TI states that driven by the strength of its OMAP platform and wirelesstechnology, its wireless solutions power more than 50 percent of 3G handsetsshipped today. With more than 15 million 3G subscribers in Japan, NTT DoCoMo isa leader in the rapidly accelerating 3G marketplace. News from TI can be foundat: http://focus.ti.com/docs/pr/pressreleasesindex.jhtm. 2 November 2005 Enquiries: Imagination Technologies Group plc Tel: 01923 260511Hossein Yassaie, CEOTrevor Selby, CFO College Hill Tel: 020 7457 2020Nick Elwes / Adrian Duffield Editor's Notes TI's OMAP2420 stand-alone application processor is the first device in themarketplace to leverage the ARM11 micro-architecture and is TI's second-generation of OMAP processors to use 90 nm technology. The OMAP2420 chipincludes an ARM1136JS-F core, a TI programmable audio DSP, a TI imaging andvideo accelerator (IVA), an Imagination Technologies PowerVR MBX 2D/3D graphicsaccelerator offering up to 2 million polygons per second, integrated camerainterface, M-Shield(R) hardware-based security solution and more. Trademarks OMAP and OMAP2 are trademarks of Texas Instruments. PowerVR(R) and MBX(R) are registered trademarks of Imagination Technologies. "FOMA" is a trademark or registered trademark of NTT DoCoMo, Inc. in Japan andother countries. NTT DoCoMo's "FOMA" service is only available to subscribers inJapan. All other trademarks are the property of their respective owners. This information is provided by RNS The company news service from the London Stock ExchangeRelated Shares:
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