Texas Instruments Incorporated is an American semiconductor company headquartered in Dallas, Texas, tracing to Geophysical Service, a seismic-survey firm founded in 1930, which was renamed Texas Instruments in 1951 after moving into electronics. It played a pioneering role in the development of the integrated circuit and the handheld electronic calculator, and today is a major maker of analog and embedded-processing semiconductors used across industrial and automotive electronics.
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Company TypeAmerican multinational semiconductor company 1 Founded YearFounded in 1930 as Geophysical Service Incorporated, a seismic-survey and oilfield-services firm; the company reorganized and took the Texas Instruments name in 1951 after moving into electronics. Headquarters Connections
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A major semiconductor company; classified in the atlas semiconductor-industry.
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1. Wikipedia, Texas Instruments Incorporated
Wikipedialead section, paragraph 1
Texas Instruments Incorporated (TI) is an American multinational semiconductor company headquartered in Dallas, Texas.
History section, Geophysical Service Incorporated
In 1930, J. Clarence Karcher and Eugene McDermott founded Geophysical Service, an early provider of seismic exploration services to the petroleum industry.
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