Recently, the eyes of the domestic technology industry seem to be on the TSMC's law conference, as well as the update of the ASUS mobile phone crisis, but in foreign countries, the Project Ara conference ended, but also dropped a piece for the global smart phone industry. Quite a big shock.
Project Ara is one of the most important programs of Google. It hopes to realize the vision of mobile phone modularization through this program. One of the key messages of this conference is that consumers can purchase the lowest order for 50 US dollars. The modular mobile phone products, consumers can also replace different modules according to their own preferences (price differences) to create the ideal smart phone at the lowest cost, while continuing the product life cycle.
However, for the semiconductor industry, it is worth noting that the Project Ara conference, LatTIce and TI (Texas Instruments) were also listed by Project Ara as the main semiconductor supplier. LatTIce provides FPGAs (Programmable Logic Gate Components), ECP3 and ECP5, and hopes to maximize the performance and functionality of the overall system with extremely low cost and power consumption. Further, these two components are responsible for The job is to connect the various subsystems in a highly flexible and flexible manner, and the MIPI interface is regarded as the main link. According to LatTIce's official public message, ECP5 is a heavyweight product line that has only recently been released. To some extent, this also means that the cooperation between Project Ara team and Lattice has been around for some time.
The TI is concerned, is the OMAP 4460, selected for the Project Ara prototype application processor, the application processor is also built-in dual-core Cortex-A9 processor core. TI has announced last year that its OMAP will be fully transferred to embedded applications, and mobile and tablet applications will gradually fade out. But Project Ara also said that the processor was chosen because it is the only publicly available data available. In short, it is an open hardware platform and everyone wants to It produces at least 50 processor modules to complete such a module project.
From this point of view, the Project Ara team also takes into account the spirit of openness and hardware. In all fairness, no matter how successful the project is, it has already attracted the attention of the global media circle. Whether Lattice and TI can benefit from it, the future is worthy of attention.
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