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Texas Instruments Alive

Texas Instruments
KindCompany
Founded1930
StatusAlive
FoundersGeophysical Service Inc. reorganization
FieldSemiconductors
Sourcewww.ti.com ↗

Kilby's integrated circuit, the Speak & Spell, the TI-99/4A, and the Explorer Lisp machine — plus decades of the DSP market nobody talks about.

Created TI Explorer

Geophysical Service Inc. (1930) became Texas Instruments in 1951. Jack Kilby demonstrated the first working integrated circuit there in 1958 — the Nobel he won in 2000 was essentially for inventing the industry.

TI built the first transistor radio (1954), the first handheld calculator, the Speak & Spell (1978), and the TI-99/4A home computer (1979–84, a price-war casualty). Its DSP business and analog chips fund everything since.

Sources

  1. ti.com/
  2. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Texas_Instruments