"STMicroelectronics and Texas Instruments said they had formed an alliance to spur development of a wider range of wireless features and to guard against any one industry player dominating the new generation of phones," reports Reuters. "The companies said they would be joined in the alliance by Nokia, manufacturer of more than one-third of the mobile phones sold worldwide, and ARM, a designer of core processor chips used in most wireless phones.
"The four initial members of what is being called the Mobile Industry Processor Interface, or MIPI, Alliance said they would recruit other phone, hardware and software vendors to help define the technology building blocks of new phone features."
