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Texas Instruments

Disciplines:
semiconductors
electronics
electronics/calculators
semiconductors/dsp chips

Summary

American semiconductor company based in Dallas — which developed the first integrated circuit (Jack Kilby, 1958) and the first pocket calculator (1967) — and which became a major producer of digital signal processors and embedded processors.

Core Contribution

Co-invented the integrated circuit and commercialized it for consumer applications — the TI calculator being the first consumer product built on the IC — while building a major semiconductor franchise in digital signal processing that persists to the present.

Historical Influences

Jack Kilby Pat Haggerty

Intellectual Lineage

Geophysics Service Inc.Dallas Texas Electronics IndustryJack Kilby Research

Contemporaries & Peers

Fairchild Semiconductor Intel Motorola

Minds Influenced

Semiconductor industry Consumer electronics Embedded computing

Intellectual Posterity

Integrated circuit TI calculatorTI-84 graphing calculatorDSP chips

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