Founded in the 1930's, Texas Instruments has gone from a little company with a big dream to producing radars and missile for the military. Here is a little timeline to show the evolution of computers in TI.
1952 - TI buys a license to make transistors
1953 - SC Products Division established
1954 - First commercial transistor introduced to public
1959 - First commercial integrated circuits
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| Single-Chip Microprocessor |
1964 - Transistor-Transistor Logic ICs instroduced
1968 - First Metal-On-Silicon circuits produced
1969 - Thermocompression bonding process developed
1971 - First single-chip microprocessor produced
First microcontroller invented
High and Low power TTL logic family produced
1978 - Single-chip speech synthesizers
256K bubble memory chips produced
1979 - Solar energy technology developed
1980 - First sonar autofocus technology
1982 - TI-99/4A home computer put into market
PEB introduced to market
| TI-99 4A |
1984 - CC-9900 Micro-Expansion System introduced for smaller computers
After 1984, TI decided that it cannot compete in home computers, so they moved on to military grade weaponry, education, space exploration programs and other projects.
Sources: Texas Instruments Official Website, Wikipedia, Old Computers Museum, NASA Official Website
