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Monday, September 6, 2021

Basic timeline of Texas Instruments

This post is a basic timeline of Texas Instruments. There are 35 events listed below chronologically.

• Geophysical Service Inc. is founded (1930)
• Reorganized as Coronado Corp. (1939)
• Submarine detection technology (1942)
• Renamed to Texas Instruments (1951)
• First workable silicon transistor (1954)
• First transistor radio (Regency TR-1) (1954)
• Jack Kilby invents the integrated circuit at Texas Instruments (1958)
• Develops AAA-4 infrared search and track technology (late 1950's)
• 7400 series transistor-transistor logic chips (1960's)
• F-4B Phantom passive scanning technology (1960's)
• AGM-45 Strike guidance and control system defense contract (1961)
• First forward looking infrared (1963)
• First hand-held calculator (1967)
• Mariner Program data system (1968)
• Begins developing laser guidance system (1964)
• Harpoon Seeker missile contact (1969)
• First single-chip microcomputer (1971)
• SR-10 calculator (1973)
• SR-50 calculator (1974)
• AGM-88 HARM high-speed antiradiation missile (1961)
• TI-30 calculator (1976)
• First single-chip speech synthesizer (1978)
• TI-99/4 home computer (1979)
• Explorer Lisp machines (1980's)
• Invents the digital light processing device (DLP) (1987)
• TI-81 calculator (1990)
• AGM-154 Joint Standoff Weapon contact (1991)
• TI-85 calculator (1992)
• TI-86 calculator (1996)
• TI-89 calculator (1998)
• TI-83 calculator (1999)
• Texas Instruments sells defense business to Raytheon (1997)
• TI-84 Plus calculator (2004)
• TI-Nspire calculator (2007)
• Texas Instruments acquires National Semiconductor (2011)

Sources

Wikipedia: Texas Instruments, TI-30, TI-83, TI-84, TI-85, TI-86, TI-89