Texas Instruments / TI History & Timeline by VB.com

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	Texas Instrument History & Timeline : 1930 foundation of the company as Geophysical Service Inc, or simply GSI a small Oil exploration firm. The company is based on a technology called reflection seismography helping to find underearth oil or gas fields. The founders are Eugene Mc Dermont (1899-1973) Cecil H Green (1900 - 2003) originally coming from GE John Eric Jonsson (1901-1995) Patrick Eugene Haggerty (1914 - 1980) 1939 name change to Coronado Corporation 1941 company bought by Standard Oil (Amoco) 1946 start of a new Laboratory and Manufacturing (L&M) division which takes longer than expected to become profitable. The new division concentrales on electronic equipment. 1951 company rebranded as Texas Instruments Incorporated. 1952 acquisition of a transistor license and start of semiconductor manufacturing. 1953 October 1 the company enters the Nasdaq stock market with the ticker symbol TXN. The first shares trade at $ 5.25 (since then the shares have been split 8 times and 1 original share is now the equivalent of 240 shares) 1954 first commercial silicon transistor introduced. 1955 the company buys 300 acres of land near Dallas for future development 1958 first integrated circuit invented by Jack Kilby. 1960 start of TI France 1961 start of TI Germany 1962 start of TI Brazil and TI Mexico 1967 Invention of the first handheld calculator. 1968 TI inventor Jack Kilby gets the National Medal of science. 1968 start of IT Japan and TI Singapore 1978 TI Speak & Spell chips produced 1979 start of TI Philippines 1985 Jerry Junkins becomes President 1985 TI starts to formally use the Internet by exchanging e-mails from it's Computer science center with the U.S. research community ... soon other TI business units gets acces to the "internet". Soon other IT offices can connect as well. IT people can communicate with the outside world, once they have entered some security codes to pass a "lobby" firewall to access the network. 1986 registration of the TI.com internet Domain (13th oldest internet domain - and 2nd oldest Two Letter Domain worldwide) 1986 opening of the first office in China 1987 The TI Internet Team redesigned the firewall system so TI people could have direct access to the World Wide Web. 1988 TI listed on the London and Zurich stockmarket 1992 TI-85 advanced graphic calculators launched 1995 april launch of the TI.com website. 1996 May 26 COE Jerry Junkins dies in Stuttgart during a business trip. 1996 June 20 Tom Engibous becomes new CEO 1996 dec 31 TI Internet connections have handled 2.3 million mail messages and 82 million web proxy requests. 1999 TI Interactive computer software introduced for education 2000 TI inventor Jack Kitby gets the Nobel price for physics 2002 online professional development for teachers 2003 alliance with USA Today for educational TI 83 handhelds high school classrooms 2004 TI 89 Titanimu graphoc calculators first single chip cellphone device produced 2004 may 1 Rich Templeton becomes new CEO Today Texas Instruments is a high tech powerhouse. The company’s more than 15,000 patents have empowered countless inventions that touch the lives of just about everyone, just about everywhere.


	Origin of TI Name & Logos & Internet Domains Name: the name Texas Instruments is related to the US State Texas. Logo: The original Texas Instruments logo was comissioned in 1950 by one of the company founder John Eric Jonsson shortly before the company's name changed to Texas Instruments. The designer was Torg Thompson. The logo represents the outlines of the state of Texas and the letters "t" for texas and "i" for instruments. As it is the case for other iconic logos, GE or Chanel or Sony the original TI logo is almost identical to the present one. Steeve Jobs was not jet born at the time would have been surprised by the avantgard use of the letter "i" .... he liked the "i" for all kind of products (iMac, iPad, iPhone ....) For him the 'i" means internet ... but wasn't Texas Instruments one of those that invented the Internet ? More about the creation of the Logo. Internet Domains: Unlike other companys owning iconic Monograms, Texas Instruments was very internet savvy and not late to register the matching internet domain TI.com. The date of registration, March 25 1986, is a symbol of exeptional technology awareness, in fact Texas Instruments was one of the very first companies to register an Internet Domain in history, and the second one (after HP.com and befor GE.com) to register a Two Letter Domain. TI.com is the 13th oldest Internet Domain. At that time almost nobody knew about the Internet. Texas Instruments is listed on position n°2 on the VB.com Domain Hall of Fame. There are many companies, in particular from France, that were very behind when the internet arrived. Louis Vuitton, Chanel, or Christian Dior not only missed the registration but also the later sale of their Monograms as a .com Internet Domain. The domain Texas Instruments.com was registered at a unknow date, but some time after TI.com. Texas has a small portfolio of over 259 domains, including some other very old internet properties from technology companies like NSC.com (24th oldest Internet Domain). Patents: over 39,000 patents


	Facts & Figures about Texas Instruments today The CEO is Rich Templeton. Today TI is divided into two main divisions: Semiconductors (SC) and Educational Technology (ET) 2011 revenues are ... $13.7 billion employing 35,300 people Texas Instruments holds 39,000 patents. Texas Instruments is owned by a large public. The Texas Instruments stock is traded on Nasdaq with the ticker symbol TXN. More from Google Finance.