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)
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