Texas Instruments joined the LiMo foundation, an industry consortium dedicated to creating a "truly open, hardware-independent, Linux-based operating system for mobile devices". Texas Instruments is joining other industry heavy-weights on the LiMO Foundations' members list, such as founding members Motorola, NEC, NTT DoCoMo, Orange, Panasonic, Samsung, Vodafone, but also Access, McAfee, LG, AMD, ARM, Ericsson, Amsung SDS and others.