Freescale vs. TI: Base station SoC battle

Junko Yoshida, EETimes
2/14/2011 12:01 AM EST

NEW YORK – In response to various network operators’ diverging demands for small to large cells, Freescale Semiconductor and Texas Instruments are unveiling this week at the Mobile World Congress their respective visions for a “base station on a chip.”

Freescale is rolling out a scalable, multimode wireless base station processor family, dubbed QorIQ Qonverge.  The new family of products, designed to scale from small cells (Femto and Pico) to large cells (Metro and Macro), share a common architecture consisting of Freescale’s proven multi-core communication processor, multi-core DSPs and baseband accelerators.