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Wireless
We design and manufacture applications processors and connectivity products. Applications processors run the device's software and services that consumers have come to expect from a connected world.
Connectivity products enable devices to wirelessly connect to Bluetooth® devices, WiFi networks, GPS location services or make financial transactions with Near Field Communications technology.
We have strengthened our position in these products lines, both of which offer great growth potential as we invest to move these products into a broader set of end equipments beyond smartphones and tablets. Together, applications processors and connectivity products generated $1.4 billion, or about 10 percent of our 2011 revenue.
Wireless also includes baseband chips, with the planned exit from this product line continuing on schedule. In the first quarter of 2012, less than 3 percent of our revenue came from this product area, and we expect it to be essentially zero as we enter 2013.
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