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The company was founded in 1930 as a geophysical service that conducted oil exploration using sound wave techniques. Later in 1938, Geophysical Services Inc. was spun off and the parent company was renamed Coronado Corporation and ceased operations in 1945. Geophysical Services was bought out by a few employees on December 6, 1941. However, on December 7, the U.S. was attacked by Japan and the company took on the production of equipment to fight enemy ships.

Semiconductors.

Geophysical Services changed its name to Texas Instruments in 1951 and began manufacturing transistors, and is now a leading semiconductor manufacturer. It manufactures sensors, analog circuits and discrete semiconductor components, digital-to-analog converters, analog-to-digital converters, digital signal processors (TMS320 family), and scientific calculators, among other products. In 1954, the company began pioneering production of the first silicon transistors and introduced the first transistorized radio on the market.

Jack Kilby.

In 1958, Texas Instruments employee Jack Kilby, later to win the Nobel Prize, presented the first integrated circuit made of germanium, which contained several transistors on a single chip. TI company three years later shows a working computer using integrated circuits. In 1971, a complete computer on a chip was produced. The early 1980s is when the company releases a large number of low-cost 99/4a computers. The company continued to produce its own line of notebooks for years before selling its manufacturing division to the Acer Group in 1997.

Calculators.

In the 1990s programmable graphing calculators become popular in the USA. Texas Instruments released two lines of calculators - equipped with Zilog Z80 and Motorola 68000 processors, the former could also be found in Gameboys, while the latter was used in Amiga and Atari 16-bit computers. The company from Dallas, Texas, with a turnover of 5 billion dollars, has been in business for over 70 years, so you can trust its products, vast experience and highly qualified employees guarantee the highest quality.