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Few companies can match the 75-year record of innovations from the inventive minds at Texas Instruments. These advances include such world-changing innovations as the first integrated circuit and the first electronic handheld calculator.

Innovation in the use of signal processing has been the technology thread throughout TI’s 75-year history.

Time and again, TI has quite literally and repeatedly changed the world—through advances in the innovative application of signal processing.

From revolutionizing oil exploration in the 1930s to creating the foundation for modern electronics in the 1950s, including the creation of the first commercial silicon transistor and the invention of the integrated circuit, all of TI's advances have been based on signal processing.

Today, the evidence of TI's continuing work in processing and interpreting signals is all around us, in communications and entertainment. They're a part of our daily life—from the single-chip mobile phone solution to cable modems, home theaters, wireless Internet, digital cameras,and advanced automotive systems.

Tomorrow? We’re already working on new signal processing Innovations that will help create cars that drive themselves, allow the blind to see and much more.

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TI announced the world’s first single-chip cell phone in early 2005. This breakthrough product is already making calls in customer laboratories.

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Take a tour of the history of innovation. A walk through the major milestones of the first 75 years of TI’s history. A look at an amazing collection of stories.

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A special invitation for current and former TI employees to add your stories to our company’s continuing story.

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