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STMicro wins contract to supply multimedia chips to Nokia

By: , IntoMobile
Tuesday, February 20th, 2007 at 11:03 PM

Straight from Forbes:

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STMicroelectronics has won a contract to supply Nokia with processors capable of running multimedia functions for mobile handsets, according to a report on the website of financial daily La Tribune.

STMicro is already a legacy supplier for other chips to Nokia, but this new order would allow STMicro to become a multimedia chip supplier as well, alongside Texas Instruments, the report said, citing sources who attended the 3GSM conference in Barcelona last week.

Neither STMicro nor Nokia would confirm or deny the new agreement.

What is going on?

A few days ago we heard that Nokia is going to use Infineon chipsets, and now this?

I guess when you’re as large as Nokia you can afford to get chips from more than one manufacturer.

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Stefan Constantinescu

Stefan Constantinescu (@WhatTheBit on Twitter) has loved technology since as far back as he can remember. It started with computers, but in the past few years his passion has turned to mobile devices. As a mobile phone enthusiast who lives and breathes devices that connect to the internet, he knows he is not alone with this radical fascination of all things wireless. He is strongly opinionated and enjoys a good debate so leave comments in his posts and he’ll get back to you! Stefan began blogging as a hobby in the fall of 2006 and joined IntoMobile in the summer of 2007. Later he got a job at Nokia in March 2008, but as of June 2009 he has rejoined the IntoMobile team. He is currently based out of Helsinki, Finland.

  • Deckard

    Not only does it bring TI competition which should allow Nokia to netgotiate better deals in future, but it also makes Nokia less dependent on TI. Having only a single source for multimedia chips is a high risk strategy and could cause Nokia problems in the long term, particularly if TI have problems producing multi-media chips in sufficient quantity – Nokia are not TI’s only customer, after all (although they are almost certainly their largest!)

  • Joxes

    Infineon will be providing the modems : 2.5G and 3G

    ST and TI will be providing Application Processor like Nomadik family (ST) and OMAP from (TI). Both Application Processor are MIPI compliant.