CEO : RICH TEMPLETON [ HQ : US ] American technology company Texas Instruments is the oldest company on the list . Founded in 1951 , the firm has spent almost 70 years building everything from graphing calculators to systems for electric vehicles . While the company moved away from the smartphone processor business in 2012 , choosing instead to focus its efforts on the embedded processors market , its OMAP 4460 SoC system can still be found in a small number of tablets and smartphones , most notably the Samsung Galaxy Nexus and the Amazon Kindle Fire HD 7 . Reportedly , the OMAP 4460 integrates an SGX540 GPU from PowerVR clocked at 384 MHz , which can utilise the same 400 MHz dual-channel LPDDR2 memory controller as the two core processors . www . mobilemagazine . com
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CEO : RICH TEMPLETON [ HQ : US ] American technology company Texas Instruments is the oldest company on the list . Founded in 1951 , the firm has spent almost 70 years building everything from graphing calculators to systems for electric vehicles . While the company moved away from the smartphone processor business in 2012 , choosing instead to focus its efforts on the embedded processors market , its OMAP 4460 SoC system can still be found in a small number of tablets and smartphones , most notably the Samsung Galaxy Nexus and the Amazon Kindle Fire HD 7 . Reportedly , the OMAP 4460 integrates an SGX540 GPU from PowerVR clocked at 384 MHz , which can utilise the same 400 MHz dual-channel LPDDR2 memory controller as the two core processors . www . mobilemagazine . com