什麼是德州儀器公司

美國電子大廠，生產計算機、微處理器及數位訊號處理器。該公司最早是1930年由卡齊爾（John Karcher）和麥德摩（Eugene McDermott）所創辦，總部設在德州達拉斯（Dallas），初期營運內容是提供地震學資料給石油公司。1951年才更名爲德州儀器公司（簡稱：德儀TI），隨後向西方電子（Western Electric）購買授權生產電晶體（transistors），1954年至1958年德儀成爲世界上唯一有能力大量生產矽晶體（silicon transistors）的公司。1958年德儀的研究員基爾比（Jack Kilby）共同發明了積體電路（integrated circuit, IC），德儀也得到一筆經費用於研發彈道飛彈導航系統。1967年基爾比發明了掌上型計算機的基本設計，1970年代德儀的半導體事業持續成長，尤其是在1973年德儀開始生產電腦用的隨機存取記憶體（dynamic random-access memory，簡稱DRAM，一般通稱爲記憶體，RAM）晶片之後。1982年德儀又研發出第一個單晶片數位訊號處理器（single-chip digital signal processor，簡稱DSP），併成爲該產品市場的支配者。

Texas Instruments, Inc.

U.S. manufacturer of calculators, microprocessors, and digital signal processors. The direct antecedent to the company, which is headquartered in Dallas, Texas, was founded by John Karcher and Eugene McDermott in 1930 to provide seismographic data for the petroleum industry. In 1951 the company changed its name to Texas Instruments Inc. (TI), and the following year it purchased a license from Western Electric to manufacture transistors. From 1954 to 1958 TI was the only firm capable of producing silicon transistors in quantity. In 1958 Jack Kilby, a researcher at TI, coinvented the integrated circuit (IC), and TI received funding to develop ICs for use in ballistic missile guidance systems. In 1967 Kilby invented the basic design for handheld calculators. The 1970s saw continued growth in TI's semiconductor business, particularly after 1973, when the company began manufacturing dynamic random-access memory (DRAM, commonly shortened to RAM) chips for use in computers. In 1982 TI introduced the single-chip digital signal processor (DSP), whose market the company went on to dominate.