The Finance Minister in his 2011 budget unveiled on February 28, 2011 has proposed a reduction in excise duty on LED bulbs. This could result in a price band of about Rs. 400 to 500 for an entry level LED light. The uptake of LED light in the Indian market has been slower than...
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Texas Instruments Inc. signed a definitive merger agreement to acquire National Semiconductor Corp. for $6.5 billion in cash, the company said Monday (April 4). “This acquisition is about strength and growth,” said Rich Templeton, TI’s chairman, president and CEO, said in a statement. Templeton said TI believes it can accelerate growth of National’s products...
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Texas Instruments Inc. remained in firm control atop the analog IC market in 2010, with $6.2 billion in sales, good for nearly 15 percent of the total analog IC market revenue of $42.29, according to a report circulated Thursday (March 24) by market research firm Databeans Inc. TI’s analog sales increased 42 percent in...
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How should the analog functions that are built into an analog IP multimedia subsystem be selected to address the particular application requirements while guaranteeing the smallest silicon area and the lowest power consumption, a two-fold challenge that is commonly faced today by both system-on-chip (SoC) integrators and IP providers: Some of the new analog...
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Bridging the gap between low-cost Piccolo and high-performance Delfino floating-point microcontrollers (MCUs), Texas Instruments Inc. (TI) has announced its new low-cost TMS320F2806x Piccolo floating-point MCUs that offer an enhanced math engine specifically designed to simplify programming and optimize performance in real-time control applications that may require integrated communications. via ednasia.com Posted via email from...
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