Texas Instruments

"The new DLP controller is 90% smaller than the previous generation, enabling compact design for consumer applications, such as lifestyle projectors, gaming projectors and augmented reality glasses"

Home Entertainment

New chip design heralds arrival of compact low-power 4K projectors

Texas Instruments has announced a new DLP display controller that's markedly smaller than previous iterations, and is designed to cater to a new wave of compact 4K UHD projectors as well as augmented-reality glasses.

Researchers have designed an RFID chip that prevents so-called side-channel attacks

Electronics

"Unhackable" RFID chip to keep your credit cards safe

To make radio frequency identification (RFID) chips a bit more secure, MIT and Texas Instruments are developing an "unhackable" RFID chip that's designed to fend off information-stealing attacks.

The pioneering integrated circuit has an estimated value of US$1 million and $2 million

Electronics

One of the world's first integrated circuits goes up for auction

This week, Christie’s put one of the very first integrated circuits up for auction. Designed and constructed in 1958 by Texas Instruments, it's one of the three earliest "chips" ever made and went on the block with an estimated value of up to US$2 million.