Bangalore: Texas Instruments Incorporated (TI) announced on March 13 that Wipro Technologies and Sasken Communication Technologies Limited would serve as independent "OMAP" Technology Centres in Asia.

By working with TI, Wipro and Sasken would help bolster development support for wireless handset manufacturers who use TI's OMAP application processors and modem technology for 2.5G and 3G mobile phones, personal digital assistants and mobile internet appliances, senior TI officials told reporters here.

In addition, the new centres would enable leading application software developers in India and other countries to quickly create multimedia-rich wireless applications that take advantage of the OMAP platform, TI Senior Vice-President Gilles Delfassy said.

TI is a world leader in digital signal processing and analog technologies, the semiconductor engines of the Internet age. Wipro Technologies is the global IT services division of Wipro Limited, while Sasken is a leading provider of telecommunications software solutions and services to mobile terminal manufacturers, network equipment vendors and semiconductor companies.

It was noted that the OMAP technology centres provide expertise in systems engineering in hardware, software development support, systems integration and offer deep knowledge and experience in high-level systems such as OS and Microsoft Windows CE.

Meanwhile, TI on March 13 held here a OMAP technology Summit where about 150 top executives and developers from some of the leading software development firms and wireless device manufacturers in India gathered to discuss the future of 2.5G and 3G mobile communications.

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