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Hardware Report: Amazon in Negotiations to Purchase Texas Instrument Mobile Chip Division
Shane McGlaun (Blog) - October 15, 2012 9:13 AM

14 comment(s) - last by inperfectdarkn.. on Oct 16 at 5:17 AM

Amazon could be looking to directly challenge Apple and Samsung

Amazon has become one of the biggest companies in the tablet market with its Kindle Fire and the new Kindle Fire HD tablets. With Amazon wanting to put pressure on Apple in the tablet market, it would make sense for the company to work on securing processors for its future assault.

Reuters reports that Amazon is in talks with Texas Instruments to purchase its mobile processor line. If the negotiations are successful and Amazon acquires the mobile processor line, it would make the online retail giant a direct rival to Apple and Samsung Electronics. Apple and Samsung Electronics are two giants in the smartphone and tablet market that also design their own chips.

By securing its own source of processors for tablets and smartphones, Amazon would have more control over the design of the parts and the performance of its products. Amazon currently uses Texas Instruments chips in its Kindle Fire tablets.

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Texas Instruments has already admitted to wanting to shift its wireless investment focus from smartphones to a broader market aiming for clients in the automotive sector and others where it hopes to be more profitable and stable.

Neither Amazon nor Texas Instruments have offered an official statement at this time.

Sources: The Next Web, Reuters

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RE: This does not make any sense to me.

By retrospooty on 10/15/2012 6:52:50 PM , Rating: 2

Meh, i disagree on alot of that (build quality, better screen), and the rest, I dont care about (dual band 80211.n , speakers). To me OS is 1st and formost. I am running 4.1.2, it came out the day after I bought it last week... Fast as hell, I mean its crazy fast... Noticuably faster than my GS3 even... and the Kindle is laggy. It's lag brings Android back 2 years... Unacceptable.

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RE: This does not make any sense to me.

By Netscorer on 10/15/2012 7:25:35 PM , Rating: 2

Did you try new Kindle Fire HD? If there is one thing, it's not laggy. Interface has been twicked quite a bit and is very smooth. They still have some work to do on predictive caching (for example, when switching between library and store views on Amazon apps) but rather then that I was very impressed with UI response. And I own Samsung Galaxy Nexus phone, so I know what Jelly Bean feels like.

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RE: This does not make any sense to me.

By retrospooty on 10/15/2012 7:32:17 PM , Rating: 2

Yes, I did, it was a 7 inch HD and laggy as hell. Reviews all over the place agree.

http://bit.ly/OD56i8

I didnt notice it in the UI, just on webpages. Every single page that is large enough to need to scroll more than a few pages lags, and lags bad, and that is an in store model without users apps loaded.

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RE: This does not make any sense to me.

By Reclaimer77 on 10/15/2012 8:28:55 PM , Rating: 2

So a brand new device had a small issue that will be fixed in a patch?

Just saying, my old Kindle Fire surfs just great. Pretty sure this wont be a lasting issue on the new one with better hardware.

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