The long nuclear winter of the telecom business has now turned to spring and we believe it will continue to grow from here.

The latest batch of vendors to develop architectures may be in for some consolidation. The current crop of 20 or so vendors might shrink down to about five suppliers over the next five years, even with new companies continually emerging.

In handsets, you need processing power for one channel. In a base station you need a chip that can handle up to 12 simultaneous calls.

They are used when you have multiple video streams and you have to translate from MPEG 2 to MPEG 4 for several streams.

It's sort of like 'Field of Dreams.' If you build it, will they come? Of course, the whole idea is to make sure there will be people with cell phones and portable devices that will, in fact, want to be able to view images over DVD-H.

About 811 million cell phones shipped in 2005. That is more than any other product on earth. That's why Intel is trying to get into the wireless business. The wireless market is growing faster than PCs.

They were fifth, and this would bring them up to No. 2 in the converter world.

Without the standard chips, they wouldn't be able to expand their market outside of their two biggest W-CDMA customers.

Without the standard chips they wouldn't be able to expand their market outside of their two biggest W-CDMA customers.

TI is not doing anything it couldn't have done before. It is just being more organized about it.