Before Texas Instruments withdrew from the processor market, it had set foot in Qualcomm and Samsung, both of which were inferior to Texas Instruments. At that time, the main selling point of high-end smart phones such as Nokia S60 series and "three-proof" magic machine Motorola Diana was the use of Texas Instruments processors. Later, Nokia's "Turn Hope" Saipan and meego systems also used Texas Instruments processors.
However, with Nokia being surpassed by Samsung and Apple, Texas Instruments' title of "the king of mobile phones" had to be ceded to MediaTek and Qualcomm.
The main reasons for Texas Instruments' withdrawal from the mobile processor market are missed research and development period, lack of manufacturing technology and lack of 3G/4G communication patents. This patented technology is firmly in the hands of Qualcomm, and Texas Instruments can only watch Qualcomm become the leader in the semiconductor field step by step.
However, although Texas Instruments has withdrawn from the mobile phone market, TI is everywhere. Texas Instruments is a calculator manufacturer as famous as Casio and a leading supplier of analog integrated circuits. At the same time, Texas Instruments also has a black technology that dominates the world-DLP technology. Every phone call, every surfing the Internet and every photo can't be separated from TI's DLP technology.
As a reclusive old man in the semiconductor industry, Texas Instruments was formerly an oil exploration company. Can you believe it?
At first, the main business was to provide geological exploration for the oil industry, but due to the oversupply of oil, it turned to arms supply. What really made Texas Instruments famous was the signal processing that was contacted later.
From 65438 to 0958, jack kilby, an employee of TI, developed the world's first integrated circuit, which changed the semiconductor industry, and TI began a new era of invention and creation.
1954 made the first transistor radio; 1967 invented the handheld electronic calculator; In the same year, the single chip microcomputer was invented and patented on 197 1 single chip microcomputer. 1978, Texas Instruments also introduced the first monolithic speech synthesizer, which was applied to a series of hand-held educational toys.
Although Texas Instruments has launched the mobile phone processor market, it is still around us in other technological innovations, constantly providing convenience. If Texas Instruments hadn't made a decisive decision and continued to spend money on the mobile phone processor market, it might not be able to catch up with Qualcomm, and other businesses might not be as successful as they are today.
If Texas Instruments redoes the mobile phone chip, which mobile phone manufacturer do you think will adopt it?