Gene Frantz
TI Principal Fellow and Business Development Manager, DSP

Now that we’ve painted some broad strokes about SoCs and the applications that use them, I’d like to take a step back and fill in some of the gaps. Three questions that keep us up at night: What are the physics that are driving the move to SoCs? How do we stay ahead of the limitations of those physics? And, just what are SoCs, anyway? My next few postings will attempt to answer these.

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Gene Frantz
TI Principal Fellow and Business Development Manager, DSP

Question: Is technology driving the move towards convergence or are manufacturers and technology suppliers simply responding to artificial market demand and expectations? Answer: We can’t be positive one way or the other. All we know for sure is that consumers want better cameras, better video, VoIP, and WLAN, and they are running out of pockets. So it only makes sense to build convergent multifunctional devices. But there are also conflicting signals in the convergence mix.

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