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TI beats out Motorola and Intel for Palm contract By Darrell Dunn EBN (12/17/01 16:59 p.m. EST) DALLAS -- Beating out both Intel Corp. and Motorola Inc.'s Semiconductor Products Sector, Texas Instruments Inc. announced a multifaceted agreement with Palm today that includes the use of its OMAP processors in future Palm personal digital assistants. Moving to TI-based processors allows Palm to meet a "key objective" of moving its PDAs to more powerful ARM-based processors, according to Todd Bradley, executive vice president and chief operating officer of the Solutions Group of Palm Inc. in Santa Clara, Calif. The agreement is a setback for Motorola SPS, whose Dragonball processors have been used in previous generation Palm PDAs. SPS had surprised observers last year when the company agreed to license the ARM-processor architecture. That move was believed to have been specifically made by SPS in an effort to hold onto the Palm PDA socket, allowing SPS to move from the underpowered Dragonball to more powerful ARM designs. There had also been considerable discussion that Palm was in negotiations with Intel Corp. to utilizes its ARM-based XScale processor in future PDA designs. Bradley said Monday that there is no exclusivity to the agreement with TI, but the disclosure does provide evidence of the company's direction for the immediate future. Palm plans to use TI's Open Multimedia Applications Processor (OMAP) technology in future PDAs incorporating 2.5G cellular GSM/GPRS capability, the companies said. OMAP is based on a combination of the ARM processor core and TI's DSP cores, a combination that currently is the most successful baseband solution found in cellular handsets. "Working together, Palm and TI can accelerate the convergence of wireless voice, multimedia, and data," Bradley said in a statement. "We believe these capabilities will be increasingly important to the growing number of mobile enterprise users." Palm and TI plan to share resources to accelerate the development of new equipment. The companies will co-promote the handheld devices, and TI plans to adopt the PDAs as a corporate standard placing them on the approved technology list for its 35,000 employees.