Talk:Texas Instruments/Archives/2018

Comments on the article

1. The "Geophysical Service Incorporated" section overlaps with the text right under "History". I think "History" should focus on an overview. For consistency with the next two sections, "Geophysical Service Incorporated" should be renamed as “Seismic exploration” to reflect the main business of the company until l951.

2. "In 1956 TI began research on infrared technology that led to several line scanner contracts and with the addition of a second scan mirror the invention of the first forward looking infrared (FLIR) in 1963 with production beginning in 1966."

The sentence needs revision.

3. "The first single-chip gallium arsenide radar module was developed."

This is a sentence that does not provide a year and it looks like it's dangling in the paragraph.

4. "Adcock later became the first TI Principal Fellow."

I don't think this kind of information is particularly pertinent to this article.

5. This article says "The 7400 series of transistor-transistor logic (TTL) chips, developed by Texas Instruments in the 1960s". The TTL article says "TTL was invented in 1961 by James L. Buie of TRW". I see a contradiction.

6. " It discontinued the TI-99/4A (1981), the sequel to the 99/4, in late 1983 amidst an intense price war waged primarily against Commodore."

I'm not sure how I should interpret this sentence. If TI withdrew does it mean everybody was trying to compete with Commodore but nobody succeeded so TI pulled out of the competition?

7. The "described as" link in the "Artificial intelligence" section should be replaced by a note that points to a source at the bottom of the page.

8. The introduction talks about 2 divisions but the "Company divisions" section talks about 3. This is clearly a discrepancy that needs to be fixed. Also, if DLP is a division I don't understand why it should not have its own header instead of being under "Signal processing". Moreover, if the divisions should be listed and presented in the same sequence.

9. The Ducati multi-core processor line should have a simple description rather than a link going outside of Wikipedia.

10. If the "Microcontrollers and processors" lists a range of products I don't see why the other sections should do the same. Maybe the information that is listed is too much and it could go on a separate article.

11. “Notes” under “References” is empty and it could be removed.

12. Texas Instruments contributed to space exploration. It supplied resistors and transistors for the Saturn V for NASA's Apollo program: http://history.nasa.gov/SP-4206/app-e.htm. I think this should be mentioned.

ICE77 (talk) 01:21, 14 October 2015 (UTC)

13. The company has recently changed its logo. Look at how the dot on the i is rounded on the version which is linked on the Wikipedia page, and square on the company's website. [1] or just http://ti.com –- IMHO the article should be updated. — Preceding unsigned comment added by Bitvitez (talk • contribs) 23:46, 10 March 2016 (UTC)

14. What was the story of TI making processors for Amazon fire tablets? — Preceding unsigned comment added by 173.206.50.115 (talk) 14:47, 15 August 2018 (UTC)