On the fringe

  • 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...
  • I am approaching my 39 th anniversary at Texas Instruments this coming January. Not long after that I will be retiring from my career at TI. I always amazed at the response I get from people when I tell them I’ve been at the same company for all...
  • Gene Frantz TI Principal Fellow, Futurist and Business Development Manager, DSP I am currently running a series looking at where technology will be in 2020. I hope you are enjoying it! I wanted to break into that series for a minute to comment on...
  • Gene Frantz TI Principal Fellow and Business Development Manager, DSP We recently announced a new floating-point core that allows our designers to do fixed- and floating-point instructions on the same DSP opening up many new applications that need...
  • 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...
  • Gene Frantz TI Principal Fellow, Futurist and Business Development Manager, DSP It's a fun time in the world of vision systems. Technology is blossoming all around us in the area. We are seeing several trends simultaneously happening: - We want more...
  • Gene Frantz TI Principal Fellow and Business Development Manager, DSP Times are tough. We are in a financial crisis and we are spending our future to try to get out of it. We are losing our jobs and our companies are in chaos. This seems...
  • 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...
  • Gene Frantz TI Principal Fellow, Futurist and Business Development Manager, DSP If you have followed my blogs over the years you know that I am seen as the Digital Signal Processor guy. You may also remember not too far back that TI announced we were...
  • I was listening to the radio on the way to work the other day and heard an interesting segment that started my thought process of defining the difference the difference between creativity and innovation. I don’t remember exactly how much of the...