TI pulling out of smartphones and tablets

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So, um, false alarm, sorta?

Today, a TI media relations manager contacted us to clarify the company's position.
It will indeed be broadening the reach of its OMAP products, aiming at "embedded applications such as automotive, industrial, enterprise communication, vision and robotics, to grow the OMAP footprint beyond mobile".
TI will also continue its efforts in developing the OMAP chipsets and the fifth generation, the one with Cortex-A15 cores, is on track - it's sampling today and the first consumer products it will power are expected in early 2013.

Nice that OMAP5 will launch.

The company *is* crippled in the US for lack of an LTE solution though.