Texas Instruments

Texas Instruments is a US manufacturer of integrated circuits (which one of their employees, Jack Kilby, co-invented) and other semiconductor devices. Among other accomplishments, they introduced the 74 series of TTL chips.

They have attempted a number of times to produce computers (e.g. the TI Explorer), but without any significant success.

Further reading

• Caleb Pirtle III, Engineering the World: Stories from the First 75 Years of Texas Instruments, Southern Methodist University Press, Dallas, 2005

External links

• The Inside Story of Texas Instruments' Biggest Blunder: The TMS9900 Microprocessor
• The Texas Instruments 99/4: World’s First 16-bit Home Gomputer