The Mobile Industry Processor Interface (MIPI) Alliance, a new industry initiative backed by ARM, Nokia, STMicroelectronics and Texas Instruments, announced its charter to define and promote open standards for interfaces to mobile application processors. The MIPI Alliance is intended to complement existing standards bodies such as the Open Mobile Alliance (OMA) and 3GPP. While these organizations focus on services and air interfaces, respectively, the MIPI Alliance is focused on microprocessors, peripherals and software interfaces. The alliance arose in response to the broad interest in the OMAPI standard launched by ST and TI in December 2002.
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- In December 2002, STMicroelectronics (ST) and Texas Instruments (TI) agreed to jointly define and promote an open standard for wireless application processor interfaces. The new Open Mobile Application Processor Interfaces (OMAPI) Standard is aimed at promoting faster and broader deployment of multimedia-enhanced mobile devices and applications. The standard will be comprised of a set of software interfaces to the operating system and a set of hardware interfaces defining common application peripherals.