Texas Instruments
The Texas Instruments Incorporated, often referred to as TI, is one of the largest U.S. technology companies. The seat is in Dallas, Texas. The Group's European headquarters are located in Upper Bavaria Freising. TI is one of the largest semiconductor companies, with 2013 stand at No. 7
Texas Instruments introduces mainly semiconductors ago, consisting of a large product variety of digital signal processors, microcontrollers, multi-core processors and calculators. Another division, the Digital Light Processing chip ( DLP) for projectors.
History
Texas Instruments was founded in 1951 by Cecil Howard Green, Jon Erik Jonsson, Eugene McDermott and Henry Bates and Peacock emerged from the predecessor companies Geophysical Service Incorporated ( GSI), which was founded by Eugene McDermott in 1930. All four founding members were employees at GSI.
On October 18, 1954, the Company announced the world's first transistor radio, which had been developed by her, but marketed by another company, came on the market this holiday season. See Regency TR -1.
At Texas Instruments by Jack S. Kilby in 1958 became the first integrated circuit ( "integrated circuit", IC) developed in the 1960s and was followed by the TTL chips of the " 7400 " series. In the beginning, the ICs with a few, simple logic functions ( NAND gates, NOR gates, etc. ), which have become more complex later. With the TI -2500 Texas Instruments Datamath brought in April 1972 the first calculator with an integrated circuit on the market. The TI -30 is one of the first successful calculators.
Texas Instruments is one of the pioneers in the field of home computer. In 1979, the Group completed the less successful TI- 99/4 on the market, although it had the advanced microprocessor TMS9900, but only limited graphics capabilities, and a stiff rubber keyboard possessed. In 1981 the public for the TI-99/4A was against much more successful and is considered the world's first erchwinglicher for residential customers 16- bit home computer. At least 2.5 million units compared to the previous model significantly improved computer were sold until 1984.
Also in the field armor Texas Instruments was very successful and developed, inter alia, the air - to-ground missile AGM -88 HARM, and the project AAWS -M ( Advance Anti- Tank Weapon System - Medium) from 1990 ( together with Martin Marietta ) an anti-tank missile, known as the FGM -148 Javelin today. In 1997, the arms division, however, was sold to Raytheon.
1997 TI sold its software division to Sterling Software, the (now CA, Inc.) was acquired in 2000 by Computer Associates. In 2000 took Texas Instruments Burr -Brown, one of the then leading and well known manufacturer of analog integrated circuits.
Today, Texas Instruments also one of the largest chip manufacturers in the world. In 2006, TI was performed on place 167 of the Global 500 list of largest companies.
Texas Instruments announced on May 14, 2009, the acquisition of specialized ARM microcontroller -based Luminary Micro. The company, based in Austin Luminary Micro had 65 employees at the time and offered ARM microcontroller with Cortex M3 architecture. Luminary Micro was the first licensee of the Cortex M3 architecture and offered the first manufacturer microcontroller of this type with the name of Stellaris. For their microcontrollers, Luminary Micro was in 2006, four awards of the professional world, including from EETimes and EDN.
On April 5, 2011 Texas Instruments announced its intention to the rival National Semiconductor for $ 6.5 billion to take over ( $ 25 per share). This intention was put into effect on 23 September 2011.
Selected products
- TI -25
- TI -30, TI -30X IIS and IIB, TI -30X MultiView
- TI -34 II
- TI Programmer
- SR -52
- TI -57, TI -58, TI- 58C and TI -59
- TI -68
Numerical
- TI -82 and TI -82 Stats
- TI -83, TI- 83 Plus and TI- 83 Plus Silver Edition
- TI -84 Plus and TI -84 Plus Silver Edition
- TI -85
- TI -86
- TI -Nspire
Computer Algebra System
- TI -89 and TI- 89 Titanium
- TI- 92 and TI- 92 Plus
- Voyage 200
- TI -Nspire CAS
- TI MSP430 - 16 -bit microcontroller
- TI TMS470/TMS570 - 32 -bit microcontrollers for automotive applications
- TMS320 - a series of 16- bit and 32 -bit DSP
- OMAP
- TI- 99/4
- TI-99/4A
- Avigo 10
- Siemens SX1
- Derive - computer algebra system for MS- DOS and Windows
- TI- InterActive! - Computer algebra system with an integrated word processor
- TI -Nspire and TI -Nspire CAS - Computer Algebra System, dynamic geometry, spreadsheets, dynamic statistical software and word processing in a