Has the slowdown in the semiconductor and communications sectors affected OMAPs progress?
I don’t think so. It’s a very difficult question, because the whole industry is suffering. Our customers are suffering and adoption for wireless devices is not as high as it was expected to be this year. We are of course impacted by the slowdown of the wireless industry, and therefore I cannot say that it has no impact. Aren’t 2.5G and especially 3G still far removed from the market in North America? Why should we be interested now? For 2.5G, GPRS (General Packet Radio Service) is deployed in Europe now. A number of American carriers have announced that they would develop a GPRS network in the U.S. AT&T and Cingular have announced they would move to GSM GPRS. The world is really going GSM (Global System for Mobile Communications), which at the end of last year had about 82 percent of new subscribers. What about 3G? For 3G, it starts with Japan, which is making trials as we speak. Europe will launch UMTS service, which is a combination of wideband CDMA and the GPRS I was just talking ab
