Texas Instruments, which has publicly taken a wait and see approach to the emerging femtocell market, has nevertheless revealed that major OEMs are using its DSPs in on-going field trials of the home basesetstaion or 3G access point business.
The company said it believes its processors are integrated into about 50 percent of the home basestations currently shipped across different standards and being trialed by mobile network operators in Europe, the U.S. and the Far East. These include Softbank, Verizon, AT&T and Vodafone.
“We have been very silent about our involvement with OEMs and success rate so far, and we still maintain that real volumes for chip makers and OEMs are some way off, in 2010 and beyond,” Josef Alt, TI’s communications infrastructure business development manager for Europe told EE Times Europe.
