Texas Instruments
Texas Instruments Inc. (TI) is a electronics company that makes semiconductors and other electronics, such as calculators.[1] The company started in 1924 in Tulsa, Oklahoma as "Geophysical Research Corporation", a subsidiary of Amerada Petroleum.[2] In 1930, they started a new independent company called Geophysical Service, Incorporated.[2] It became a subsidiary of General Instruments in 1951.[3] The same year the name was changed to Texas Instruments (TI).[2] The company is headquartered in Dallas, Texas. Today TI is the third largest manufacturer of semiconductors in the world[4] after Intel and Samsung. It is the second largest supplier of chips for cellular handsets after Qualcomm. TI is the largest producer of digital signal processors (DSPs) and analog semiconductors. They also make a wide range of other semiconductor products.
Texas Instruments Media
Entrance to Texas Instruments North Campus facility in Dallas, Texas
Transistorized "logic" chip, an integrated circuit produced by TI
Texas Instruments and other brands of 7400 series TTL and CMOS logic
Texas Instruments Speak & Spell using a TMC0280 speech synthesizer
TI-30 electronic calculator, 1976
TI operated this Convair 240 on experimental work in the 1980s fitted with a modified extended nose section.
Texas Instruments, DLP Cinema Prototype Projector, Mark V, 2000
DLP CINEMA, a Texas Instruments technology
References
- ↑ "Texas Instruments Technology & Innovation".
- ↑ 2.0 2.1 2.2 "Texas Instruments". Texas State Historical Association. Retrieved 2 February 2016.
- ↑ Mark Burgess (2011). "Early Semiconductor History of Texas Instruments". Mark P D Burgess. Retrieved 2 February 2016.
- ↑ "Texas Instruments to buy National Semiconductor". BBC. 5 April 2011. Retrieved 2 February 2016.
