On the fringe

  • Gene Frantz TI Principal Fellow, Futurist and Business Development Manager, DSP I am now finished with the details of our “2020 vision” that we did two years ago. It is always fun to look back on a prediction of the future and see if it’s...
  • 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...
  • 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...
  • We’ve all heard the saying, “The future is in the palm of your hand.” With the proliferation of biometric technology, it has never been truer. The future really is in the palm of your hand, but did you know it’s also in the pattern...
  • 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, 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 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...
  • 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...
  • 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...
  • 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...