Editing OMAP (section)

{{Short description|Texas Instruments image/video processors}}
[[File:BeagleBoard described.jpg|300px|thumb|A [[BeagleBoard]] featuring a TI OMAP3530 at its core]]
[[File:PandaBoard described.png|300px|thumb|TI OMAP4430 on [[PandaBoard]]]]
[[File:TI ZoomII.jpg|thumb|TI's Zoom2 reference hardware based on the OMAP 3430 processor]]

'''OMAP''' ('''Open Multimedia Applications Platform''') is a family of [[image processor|image]]/[[video processor]]s that was developed by [[Texas Instruments]]. They are proprietary [[system on chip]]s (SoCs) for portable and mobile [[multimedia]] [[application software|applications]]. OMAP devices generally include a general-purpose [[ARM architecture]] processor core plus one or more specialized [[co-processor]]s. Earlier OMAP variants commonly featured a variant of the [[Texas Instruments TMS320]] series [[digital signal processor]].

The platform was created after December 12, 2002, as [[STMicroelectronics]] and Texas Instruments jointly announced an initiative for ''Open Mobile Application Processor Interfaces'' (OMAPI) intended to be used with [[2G#2.5G (GPRS)|2.5]] and [[3G]] [[mobile phone]]s, that were going to be produced during 2003.<ref>{{Cite web |date=2002-12-12 |title=STMicroelectronics and Texas Instruments Team Up to Establish an Open Standard for Wireless Applications |url=http://www.st.com/stonline/press/news/year2002/c1277d.htm |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20030212064851/http://www.st.com/stonline/press/news/year2002/c1277d.htm |archive-date=2003-02-12 |access-date=2012-12-24 |publisher=STMicroelectronics |location=Dallas and Geneva}}</ref> (This was later merged into a larger initiative and renamed the [[MIPI Alliance]].) The OMAP was Texas Instruments' implementation of this standard. (The STMicroelectronics implementation was named [[Nomadik]].)

OMAP enjoyed some success in the smartphone and tablet market until 2011 when it lost ground to [[Qualcomm Snapdragon]].<ref>{{Cite web |date=26 September 2012 |title=Texas Instruments admits defeat, moves focus away from smartphone processors |url=https://www.theverge.com/2012/9/26/3411212/texas-instruments-omap-smartphone-shift}}</ref>  On September 26, 2012, Texas Instruments announced that they would wind down their operations in smartphone and tablet oriented chips and focus on embedded platforms instead.<ref>{{Cite web |date=25 September 2012 |title=UPDATE 3-Texas Instruments eyes shift away from wireless |url=https://www.reuters.com/article/texasinstruments-wireless-idUSL1E8KP5FN20120925?irpc=932 |publisher=Reuters}}</ref> On November 14, 2012, Texas Instruments announced they would cut 1,700 jobs due to their shift from mobile to embedded platforms.<ref>{{Cite web |last=Fingas |first=Jon |date=2012-11-14 |title=Texas Instruments to cut 1,700 jobs as part of its shift away from mobile |url=https://www.engadget.com/2012/11/14/texas-instruments-to-cut-1-700-jobs-as-part-of-shift-from-mobile/ |access-date=2013-07-10 |publisher=Engadget.com}}</ref> The last OMAP5 chips were released in Q2 2013.