on the fringe blog

white board video series

In this series TI innovators discuss the challenges in areas such as cloud connectivity, smart buildings, medical electronics and much more.

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• Semiconductor innovation is enabling new ways of delivering medical care and wellness
• Innovations in energy efficiency, consumption and harvesting will produce an array of benefits.
• Low-power design and connectivity: Key components for the "Internet of Things."
• Learn about the growing role of embedded analytics in areas such as automotive, surveillance and industrial systems.
• Advances in energy harvesting are paving the way for perpetual devices.
• Microcontrollers enable designers to bring an array of intelligent features to energy-efficient LED lighting.
• Power line communications is very attractive in applications that can benefit from networking over existing lines.

TI's R&D teams are embedded in every business unit across the company, where they work directly with customers and stay closely coupled to the realities of the market. TI also operates about a dozen dedicated research-and-development labs, including several that are specifically designed to spur high-risk, breakthrough ideas that can be rapidly explored in an open and collaborative environment.

TI’s origins in 1930 involved an innovative approach to oil exploration using early signal-processing technology. And ever since then the company’s history has been punctuated by important innovations – such as the integrated circuit itself – as well as decisions to remake itself – as a successful defense contractor in the 1940s and, most recently, as the world leader in analog semiconductor technology.