"David Eduardo" wrote in message
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"Frank Dresser" wrote in message
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And wouldn't Texas Instruments get an even lower licensing fee than
Samsung
since some of the technology is already owned by TI and TI is one of the
buddies in the HD radio alliance?

The HD Alliance is a group of large radio broadcasters who banded together
to create a unified on-air ad campaign and marketing materials. Neither
iBiquity nor TI have anything to do with it.



Oops. Looks like I miscatagorized TI into the HD radio alliance. That's
what I get for writing off the cuff. I could have call them one of
ibiquity's "strategic partners". But that dosen't really make any
difference to the question -- Why Samsung and not TI?

Well, a bit of research reveals that Texas Instruments isn't just a
strategic partner. They are investors in ibiquity. That's right, TI owns a
share of the company which is presumeably sending business off to a
competitor.

http://www.ibiquity.com/about_us/investor_information

So, why isn't TI making the lower power chips right now? Why didn't they
start making them a couple of years ago?

Could Texas Instruments have lost faith in the future of HD radio?

Frank Dresser