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Mission-Critical Communications Virus-Free at Texas Instruments
White Papers Texas Instruments is the world leader in digital signal processing and analog technologies, the semiconductor engines of the Internet age. The ability to maintain ongoing worldwide communications has been one of the keys to TI's success.
[August 3, 2006, 0:00]
Radio chip turns analogue into digital
News The chipset, called Symphony, has a 1500 million instructions per second (MIPS) digital signal processing (DSP) core that can reject interference, receive weaker signals than before and produce better stereo, giving an end result that according to...
[October 4, 2002, 10:23]
Intel and Analog Devices ring in new DSP
News Called Micro Signal Architecture, the technology aims to deliver high-performance signal processing capabilities for mobile computing devices, ranging from MP3 players to cellular phones, operating on 2.5G or 3G cellular networks.
[December 6, 2000, 12:55]
Intel powers up smartphone chip
News The Manitoba chip is designed to put pressure on chipmakers such as Texas Instruments and Motorola, who already offer integrated wireless processors. Manitoba, also known as the "wireless Internet on a chip", integrates flash memory, a digital...
[February 12, 2003, 11:07]
TI and AMD team on next-generation mobile
News The convergence of communications and broadband-enabled applications like video streaming, Internet audio, and wireless digital photography requires that mobile systems deliver enhanced performance and battery life, while remaining small enough...
[October 3, 2000, 10:27]
TI: Consumer electronics is a key sector
News More gadgets are using digital signal processors, and the trend will continue as digital information plays a larger role in the lives of consumers, said Tom Engibous, chief executive of Texas Instruments, a major manufacturer of DSPs.
[January 13, 2003, 10:38]
Texas Instruments sheds 3,400 jobs
News Semiconductor company Texas Instruments is laying off 1,800 workers, following a 95 percent quarterly drop in profits year-on-year and reduced business from major clients such as Nokia and Ericsson. TI's wireless division mainly produces digital...
[January 27, 2009, 15:06]
InFocus LP130 review
Reviews The LP130 uses Digital Light Processing (DLP) technology, which is based around Texas Instruments' Digital Micromirror Device (DMD) chip. If your PC has a DVI-compliant graphics adapter (which are still quite rare), then you won't need to worry...
[June 14, 2001, 0:00]
Compaq MP2800 Microportable Projector review
Reviews The MP2800 uses Texas Instruments' Digital Light Processing (DLP) technology, which is notable for providing an excellent contrast ratio, and for its fast pixel-switching rate that's particularly suited to video handling.
[February 20, 2001, 23:00]
Instrumental to chip success
News When Texas Instruments comes to mind, most folks still might think calculators or educational toys. And this comes from Texas Instruments. Though it flopped at selling PCs, TI has played a major role in the mobile phone revolution; the company's...
[September 2, 2005, 11:05]
New chips aimed at faster mobile phones
News This week Texas Instruments and Analog Devices will announce new chips with advanced capabilities aimed at phones for higher data rate 2.5G and 3G cellular networks. Analog also will announce its first digital signal processor chip developed with...
[February 19, 2001, 11:47]
Chipmakers aim to unclog data paths
News The company's Tile64 — designed for networking equipment and video-streaming servers — can provide 10 times the performance of an Intel Xeon chip while consuming far less power, or 40 times the performance of a digital signal processor from Texas...
[August 20, 2007, 11:01]
The Day Ahead: Silicon Labs has the recipe for a hot IPO
News Silicon Labs' digital signal processing chips are found in mobile phones, cable and satellite set-top boxes, modems and fax machines. Across all of its product areas, Silicon Labs competes with Advanced Micro Devices (AMD), Analog Devices, Conexant...
[March 23, 2000, 11:48]
General purpose processors flash their assets
News MIPS, which sells processor designs to chipmakers such as Texas Instruments and LSI Logic, is showing off two new processor designs aimed at a wide range of consumer devices. Chip manufacturers and designers at the forum are expected to announce...
[June 13, 2001, 9:26]
Start-up gazes into crystal ball for 3D display
News The image is displayed using a Texas Instruments 1600 MIPS digital signal processor with a 24Hz volume refresh. The 3D mechanism behind Perspecta goes back to the 1960s, but had to wait for high-resolution processing and display technology caught up.
[June 27, 2002, 17:00]
First beta of Banias chip ready
News Intel is engaged in an arms race with Texas Instruments, Motorola and others to become the dominant power for chips in cell phones and handhelds. The phone chip will combine an XScale processor, Intel's StratFlash flash memory, and its MicroSignal...
[April 19, 2002, 15:37]
ARM launches low-power multimedia chip
News The A8 is the first applications processor based on the ARMv7 architecture and includes ARM's implementation of NEON - new signal processing extensions - that accelerates the processing of media codecs such H.264 and MP3.
[October 5, 2005, 16:55]
TI chief: Keep it simple
News Texas Instruments has a philosophy when it comes to the wireless world: Keep it simple. TI builds a wide range of digital signal processors (DSPs), the chips used behind the scenes to help refine signals, such as voice, for cell phones, handheld...
[May 1, 2001, 9:15]
Intel to unveil its "Internet on a chip"
News Texas Instruments, the top DSP maker and Intel's main competitor in the handheld and cell phone markets, has also followed this route. Intel, through the union of a processor core, flash memory technology and a digital signal processor, has created...
[May 17, 2001, 8:39]
Mobile phone makers hunt for 3G solution
News Chipmakers such as Texas Instruments and Qualcomm are "stuck in a very linear mindset", Wheddon told ZDNet UK. Quicksilver claims its technology can deliver 10 to 50 times the performance of a conventional DSP (digital signal processor) while...
[May 14, 2002, 13:37]
