DALLAS (April 15, 1996) -- DSP Solutions market leader Texas Instruments announced today that its Semiconductor Group has won the 1996 IEEE (Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers, Inc.) Corporate Innovation Recognition award for technical excellence in the design and application of digital signal processors (DSPs). Past winners include: Apple, AT&T Bell Labs, Bellcore, Ericsson Radio Systems, Hewlett Packard, IBM, Intel, Philips, and Sony. Each year, IEEE honors a public or private entity for the creation of innovative products or concepts, such as digital signal processing that have resulted in major advancements in the arts and sciences in electrotechnology.
A digital signal processor (DSP) is a high-performance microprocessor designed to perform mathematically intensive operations. TI is the world's leading DSP chip provider with more than 20,000 customers worldwide and a 44.1 percent share of the DSP market, which is expected to reach 9.1 billion by the year 2000, according to Will Strauss of Forward Concepts. TI has been responsible for making digital signal processing technology pervasive in today's electronics markets, which has made a significant impact on commerce and standard of living.
IEEE is the world's largest technical professional society with nearly 315,000 members in approximately 150 countries. The Institute, headquartered in New York, NY, is a leading authority on areas ranging from aerospace, computers, and telecommunications to biomedical engineering, electric power and consumer electronics.
The IEEE awards program is intended to increase public awareness of engineers' accomplishments. The Corporate Innovation Recognition award is judged by a distinguished panel of IEEE board members, which is comprised of top executives from various companies in the technology industry.
"We are honored that IEEE has recognized our impact on the electronics industry with this award. Since 1982, TI DSP has developed new devices that have allowed our customers to create new and innovative products. This has helped drive the market since its early start in modem technology to the widespread success it has reached today in the wireless and communications markets," said Michael Hames, vice president of TI's semiconductor group and worldwide DSP manager.
DSPs will have as great an impact on future products as the microprocessor had the last 10 years. The speed, power and cost effectiveness of the DSP are the reasons the chip is being used in consumer, communications, industrial, automotive and military segments. DSPs can be found in hundreds of products, such as wireless telephones, hard disk drives, PC Games, videoconferencing equipment, anti-lock brakes, modems, digital set-top boxes, digital telephone answering machines. TI's Semiconductor Group President Thomas J. Engibous will accept the award, at a ceremony being held June 22, 1996 in Montreal, Quebec, Canada. The award consists of a certificate and Steuben glass sculpture, which was established in 1985.
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