Texas Instruments DSP Chip Wins "Innovation of the Year" Award
HOUSTON (April 30, 1998) -- EDN magazine awarded Texas Instruments (TI) (NYSE: TXN) the "Innovation of the Year" Award for the world’s most powerful digital signal processor (DSP), a chip that is enabling a new era in voice, data and visual communications. EDN, a leading electronic trade publication, recognized TI's chip design as an outstanding and unique engineering product in the industry at an awards ceremony late last week.
TI's TMS320C6x DSP won the award in the microprocessor/DSP category. The chip, disclosed in February 1997 and now shipping in volume, operates at 1.6 billion instructions per second, up to 10 times the speed of existing DSPs. The high-speed chip will lead the explosive growth of wireless and data communications, especially high-speed downloads from the Internet.
DSPs are powerful, specialized microprocessors that are ideal for real-time math-intensive computing. They are used in digital cellular phones and cellular basestations, modems, hard disk drives, digital satellite systems, medical imaging such as MRI and CT scans, digital cameras and appliances.
EDN's readers from around the world voted TI's chip the winner through an on-line ballot at EDN's web site. The winning DSP will be featured in the May 7, 1998 EDN issue.
TI is the world leader in DSP solutions. According to Forward Concepts, a DSP market analyst firm, TI led the market with a 45 percent market share in 1997 for programmable DSPs.
More information on TI's DSP solutions can be found at 
http://www.ti.com/dsps
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