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CommentsMore popularly known as TI, Texas Instruments Corporation is a well-known manufacturer of semiconductors and the leading seller of signal processing solutions. The company sells analog, digital signal processing and DLP microchip technologies found in devices such as wireless telephones, cell phones, flat-screen televisions and projectors. The company’s headquarters is in Dallas, Texas, and manufacturing plants and operations are found in more than 25 countries.
In 1951, Texas Instruments Corp. was founded by John Erik Jonsson, Eugene McDermott, Cecile Howard Green and Patrick Haggerty. Green and McDermott were American geophysicists; Jonsson was a businessman and former mayor of Dallas, while Haggerty was an engineer. The three of them who were Geophysical Service employees, Green, Jonsson and McDermott, bought the company in 1941. Patrick Haggerty came into the picture in 1945 when he served as general manager of the Laboratory and Manufacturing Division.
Before Texas Instruments came about, Geophysical Service Inc. was its subsidiary company. Then in 1939, its company name changed into Coronado Corporation, where Eugene McDermott was president. It was in 1951 that the founders gave birth to a new name, Texas Instruments Corp. In the same year, Eugene McDermott was named chairman of the board, while Erik Jonsson succeeded his position as president. Patrick Haggerty was elected vice president and director, as Cecile Green took over the GSI Unit.
In 1988, Texas Instruments sold Geophysical Service to Halliburton, an oilfield corporation based in the U.S. This was the time GSI became a separate corporation and was no longer connected to TI.
Prior to becoming a semiconductor manufacturer, TI also sold defense electronics to the market in 1942. They focused on this area of business, selling missiles, radar and infrared systems, laser-guide bombs and military computers. As their marketing of such products consolidated, TI sold the defense system to Raytheon, an American defense contractor and industrial corporation.
Early in 1953, Texas Instruments began fabricating and selling semiconductors after having purchased a copyright license to produce them. Two years after, they designed the first all-transistor AM radio, the Regency TR1.
Soon after, TI was able to invent the transistor-transistor logic in 1960s, a hand-held calculator in 1967, and lastly, a speech synthesizer called Speak and Spell in 1976.
In the corporate workplace of Texas Instruments, they have two main departments, the Semiconductors (SC) and the Educational Technology (ET). Leading to about 96% of the company’s income, the semiconductors have many different areas to its products. Examples would be digital analogs, digital signal processors applications, and high-performance analog circuits. The arrival of TI’s graphic calculators in the late 1990s became popular among thousands of students, and it gave credit to their variety of Educational Technology.
Texas Instruments in the news:
- Texas Instruments awards Junkins Scholarships to largest group ever
- TI Unveils PoE Controller
- AT&T, TI team up for wireless balance-sensing
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