Company Pedigree
| Ascendant Companies | Descendant Companies | ||
| Company | Comments | Company | Comments |
| TI | Founded as Geophysical Service, Inc. in 1930. Purchased a license from Western Electric (AT&T) to manufacture transistors in 1952. | Mostek | Founded by L. J. Sevin and other TI employees in 1969. |
| Harris | Acquired Harris’ CMOS products in 1998. | ||
| Burr-Brown | Acquired by TI in 2000 | ||
Company Overview
Major Achievements
1954 – 1st silicon transistor
1954 – Developed first transistor radio, TR-1
1958 – 1st Germanium integrated circuit – Jack Kilby
1964 – First consumer product containing ICs (Zenith Hearing Aid)
1967 – Invented the hand held calculator – Jack Kilby
1971 – TMC1802, first calculator on a chip
1974 – TMS1000, first microcomputer on a chip
1978 – First single-chip speech synthesizer (found in TI Speak&Spell)
1988 – Development of SuperSparc chips for Sun Micro Systems (1st chip 1991)
Noted Employees
Gordon Teal – Originally at Bell Labs; Developed first silicon transistors
Jack Kilby – Co-inventor of the integrated circuit
Chip Identification
Texas Instruments Chips
| Microprocessors | |
| CPU’s | TMS9900 |
| MCU’s | TMS1000, TMS1070, TMS1098, TMS1099, TMS1100, TMS1200, TMS1270, TMS1300 |
| Bit-Slice | SBP400 |
| Coprocessors | |
| Memory Devices | |
| RAM | |
| ROM | |
| PROM | |
| EPROM | |
| EEPROM | |
| CCD Memory | |
| Bubble Memory | |
| General Use Support Chips | |
| Shift Registers | |
| Interfaces | |
| Communications | |
Second Sourced Chips
| Microprocessors | |
| CPU’s | Intel 8080 (TMS8080) |
| MCU’s | |
| Bit-Slice | |
| Memory Devices | |
| RAM | |
| ROM | |
| PROM | |
| EPROM | |
| EEPROM | |
| CCD Memory | |
| Bubble Memory | |
| General Use Support Chips | |
| Shift Registers | |
| Interfaces | |
| Communications | |