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In May 2020 Texas Instruments removed the ability to run assembly (ASM) and C programs on its TI-84 Plus CE graphing calculator and on its French counterpart, the TI-83 Premium CE. The change came with operating system updates (OS 5.6 for the TI-84 Plus CE and OS 5.5 for the TI-83 Premium CE), and calculators that installed them could not be rolled back to an older OS. TI said the move was meant to prioritise learning and reduce security risks, …
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Murugavel Ganesan
May 25, 2020
Texas Instruments
The Wall Street Journal is reporting that TI intends to buy National Semiconductor for $6.5 billion, $25/share. These two semiconductor firms are analog semiconductor powerhouses with large businesses in non-analog markets as well. TI says that this move will immediately grow National’s sales team by 10x. The article also states that TI has pulled out of the recession with a sharp rebound in orders while National Semi has not done as well. Th…
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Murugavel Ganesan
April 06, 2011
Texas Instruments
Rumors had been rampant for the past 3 months or so that TI had stopped development on the 45 nm node and moved on to 40nm attributing to lower power advantages and poor performance scaling till this article was published at EETimes. " The first 45-nanometer chip to be designed by Texas Instruments, and fabricated by a foundry, uses new processing technology never before revealed by TI. The design details of the 45-nanometer process used t…
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Murugavel Ganesan
February 06, 2008
