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• (TI) is an American technology company that designs and manufactures semiconductors, which it sells to electronics designers and manufacturers globally
• Headquartered in Dallas, Texas, United States, TI is one of the top ten semiconductor companies worldwide, based on sales volume
• Texas Instruments' focus is on developing analog chips and embedded processors, which accounts for more than 85% of their revenue
• TI also produces TI digital light processing (DLP) technology and education technology products including calculators, microcontrollers and multi-core processors
• To date, TI has more than 43,000 patents worldwide
• Texas Instruments emerged in 1951 after a reorganization of Geophysical Service Incorporated, a company founded in 1930 that manufactured equipment for use in the seismic industry, as well as defense electronics
• TI produced the world's first commercial silicon transistor in 1950, and designed and manufactured the first transistor radio in 1954
• Jack Kilby invented the integrated circuit in 1958 while working at TI's Central Research Labs
• TI also invented the hand-held calculator in 1967, and introduced the first single-chip microcontroller (MCU) in 1970, which combined all the elements of computing onto one piece of silicon
• In 1987, TI invented the digital light processing device (also known as the DLP chip), which serves as the foundation for the company's award-winning DLP technology and DLP Cinema