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Throwback Thursday: The Win-Win Effect of Innovation
Gene Frantz
I have spent most of my career in the world of digital signal processing at Texas Instruments. What have continually amazed me over those 38 years are the remarkable innovations our customers create based on our DSP devices. Before I share a few stories about our innovative customers, let me tell another...
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Sep 27, 2012
Blog Post:
Future Friday: A traffic-free world
Fernando Mujica
On the way to work this morning, I was stuck in bumper-to-bumper traffic. Minutes were ticking by, and I was getting increasingly impatient, thinking to myself, “I have meetings to go to! I don’t have time to sit on the highway!” This is not a common experience for me as I normally...
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Sep 7, 2012
Blog Post:
Tools in 2020: Development tools are key to SoC implementation
Gene Frantz
By Reid Tatge, TI Fellow Customers need chips, tools and software that match the specific needs of their application. In addition, they need everything to be simple to design into a product, easy to program efficiently, ultra-low power and ultra-low cost, available early in the end-product’s...
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Nov 12, 2009
Blog Post:
From 2009 to 2020: A history of developments in programmability
Gene Frantz
Alan Gatherer, CTO Communications Infrastructure Group Predicting the future is primarily an act of the imagination. However, Digital Signal Processors are showing some strong trends and I think it is possible to predict what will happen in the next few years as we move towards the next order of magnitude...
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Sep 2, 2009
Blog Post:
Processor Architectures – Where will we will be in 2020?
Gene Frantz
Gene Frantz TI Principal Fellow, Futurist and Business Development Manager, DSP I started some discussions early last year about where technology would be in 2020 when I originally posted this blog. Since then, I have worked with some of the top technical minds here at TI to create some other viewpoints...
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Jul 29, 2009
Blog Post:
A buck a billion
Gene Frantz
Gene Frantz TI Principal Fellow, Futurist and Business Development Manager, DSP Last year I spent a lot of time looking at where our industry would be in the year 2020 ( see 2-6-08 blog here ) and came up with some interesting predictions on everything from where architectures would be to what software...
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Jul 7, 2009
Blog Post:
The End of Moore’s Law
Gene Frantz
Gene Frantz TI Principal Fellow, Futurist and Business Development Manager, DSP I have spoken to several people over the last couple of days on the topic of the end of Moore’s Law. So I thought it would be fun to throw a few thoughts out on that very topic. I’ll start with first the...
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Jun 18, 2009
Blog Post:
I found Twitter, or Twitter found me…now what?
Gene Frantz
Gene Frantz TI Principal Fellow, Futurist and Business Development Manager, DSP When I heard about this Twitter thing, it fell into the category of things my generation just didn’t do. Really, why do I care what people are thinking right now or where they are and do they really care where...
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May 27, 2009
Blog Post:
My trip to China and what I learned at the Universities: DSP Theory or DSP Design?
Gene Frantz
Gene Frantz TI Principal Fellow and Business Development Manager, DSP As I was sitting in the airport in Shanghai waiting for my flight back to the US, I thought it would be a good time to reflect on what I saw in China. My original purpose for the trip was to attend ICASSP – IEEE’s...
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May 14, 2009
Blog Post:
The price is right for innovation
Gene Frantz
Gene Frantz TI Principal Fellow and Business Development Manager, DSP In my last blog, I talked about how the economy can be a trigger point for innovation. This time I will look at the role price plays. As I have thought about TI’s history of introducing new technologies, I find...
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Apr 8, 2009