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Texas Instruments Incorporated (TI) is an American multinational semiconductor company headquartered in Dallas, Texas. [5] It is one of the top 10 semiconductor companies worldwide based on sales volume. [ 6 ]
The TI-99/4 and TI-99/4A are home computers released by Texas Instruments in 1979 and 1981, respectively. [2] Based on Texas Instruments's own TMS9900 microprocessor originally used in minicomputers, the TI-99/4 was the first 16-bit home computer. [3]
Mark Shepherd Jr. (January 18, 1923 – February 4, 2009) [1] was the chairman and chief executive officer of Texas Instruments. He was in attendance at the demonstration of the integrated circuit by Jack Kilby on September 12, 1958.
Eugene McDermott (February 12, 1899 - August 23, 1973) [1] was an American engineer and geophysicist who co-founded Geophysical Service Incorporated (GSI) in 1930 and later its parent company Texas Instruments in 1951. [2]
SR-50 (1974) Printed circuit board. Data code 035: 3rd week 1975. The SR-50 was Texas Instruments' first scientific pocket calculator with trigonometric and logarithm functions. . It enhanced their earlier SR-10 and SR-11 calculators, introduced in 1973, which had featured scientific notation, squares, square root, and reciprocals, but had no trig or log functions, and lacked other featur
In 1967 the Texas Instruments Cal-Tech was the first prototype electronic handheld calculator, with three MOS LSI chips, and it was later released as the Canon Pocketronic in 1970. [100] The Sharp QT-8D desktop calculator was the first mass-produced LSI MOS calculator in 1969, [ 99 ] and the Sharp EL-8 which used four MOS LSI chips was the ...
(Reuters) -Texas Instruments said on Friday it would receive up to $1.6 billion in funding from the U.S. Commerce Department towards the construction of three new facilities, the latest government ...
Jerry Ray Junkins (December 9, 1937 – May 29, 1996) was a U.S. electronics businessman who served as the president, chairman, and CEO of Texas Instruments, Incorporated from 1988 until his death in Germany, during a business trip. Junkins was born in Fort Madison, Iowa. He was the salutatorian of his high school class of 25 students in ...