Texas Instruments

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

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)

Gordon Teal - Originally at Bell Labs; Developed first silicon transistors

Jack Kilby - Co-inventor of the integrated circuit

TI Chip Markings