I used your videos to tell my teacher and business class something he didn't know. He told the class he didn't understand why Blockbuster wouldn't buy Netflix. And I told them about the Enron deal. Thanks for making me look a lot smarter than I am.
Texas is where the oil industry was born and this is where it will continue to lead in the foreseeable future. I'm proud to have been a part of it working for TI and GSI even thou I'm not from Texas and wasn't even born in the United States.
@@Harry_Sama Harry.......Coal, Oil and Gas created our Technological Civilization and sustains it. Without it we would be back in the pre-industrial world of 3 hundred years ago. In a agricultural community hoping we can grow enough food to sustain us for another year. Where Slavery of some form or another was a common occupation.
@@Harry_Sama Atmospheric scientists have noted a spray of anti-matter coming from lighting strikes. So there is a method to convert electrical energy and matter directly to into anti-matter. Thus gaining the energy from matter+anti-matter reactions. The largest power source ever discovered. So Harry, just write the proper equations. Then convert them into hardware. And make a fortune on your invention. Just do it a long distance away from me. As the resulting gamma-ray emissions is nothing I would like to be around. As I could not figure out how to convert the gamma-rays directly to AC power. And I have the technological sense enough not to try.
I repair computers, often doing component-level board repairs (diagnosing hardware issues and replacing individual board components to repair them). I mostly work on Macs now, but I've disassembled countless laptops and I don't think I have come across a single one that didn't have TI chips somewhere in them, usually several of them. TI is everywhere, it's just that nobody knows it because these days they sell the chips that board makers need to power their electronic circuits. CPUs and GPUs and RAM get all the hot tech press and all the name recognition, but TI literally makes all of the other stuff that actually makes those things work. Also, I have to give a lot of props to TI because every time I find a chip of theirs on a board I can look it up and find a datasheet right on their website. So it's a huge help that they actually provide freely available documentation for the products they make. A lot of manufacturers do not do this.
Ok, I knew they didn't make *all* their money from calculators -- but only *three* percent comes from calculators?! That was a very surprising fact to learn -- wow!
I think the % of their profits from calculators was probably higher before the era of cell phones. It has probably never been a dominant part of their overall income, but it probably wasn't 3% back in the 80s. Maybe more like 10.
As a hobbyist electrical engineer, Texas Instruments makes up like 75% of my integrated circuits shelf, both scrapped from old electronics, and purchased brand new from a wholesaler
ARM would actually be a pretty interesting video because they are a huge company that doesn't have any physical products, just intellectual property that they license to other companies like TI, Apple, Qualcomm, etc.
I’ve sent this video to my husband who works at TI. ❤️👍🏼❤️ Each year TI celebrates Jack Kilby Day. Nice t-shirts are given away to employees and there’s a huge life-size cutout of Jack for taking selfies. ❤️👍🏼❤️
What you think of mechanical engineering? Now a day Knowledge is judgement by certificate. I never want to study i like to work on machines to identify problem research oriented and while doing that i will study book related topic. I am expert in HVAC and Automobile. People are now a day are trust on me that i will work in Research & development department. They are avoiding me by showing that your education certificate is fulfill. I think that for Research such MNC company should be open Minded.
yeah i was stoked to see Jack mentioned too! i'm a big ti fan for a lot of reasons, and an amature engineer who grew up making things with ti components, great vid thanks!
Girish Bhalerao r/boneappletea. Also, you should continue to study. Those skills will be useful later on. Try going for an engineering major in college.
My brother-in-law worked for TI in the mid 70s. He used to bring home some prototype gadgets that were amazing for the time. He and my sister gave me my first calculator for Christmas in the late 70s. It was big, clunky and had those red numbers-in-a-tube. I didn’t realize how expensive that gift was until years later. It would have sold for several hundred dollars.
Another first for Texas Instruments that most people don't know about: they were the first company to make a programmable 2d and 3d graphics accelerator chip way back in 1986 (the TMS 34010). These chips were at the heart of many arcade machines in the late 80s and early 90s. Several companies packaged them on expansion cards you could buy for home computers or workstations, but they were really expensive, so that's why the most exposure they got was in arcade cabinets.
Some of the founders of TI including Eugene McDermott saw the need for another university in the Dallas area and founded the Graduate Research Center of the Southwest in 1962, which at that time contributed to the space race. They then donated the school to the State of Texas in 1969 and became The University of Texas at Dallas, now a growing university ranked one of the best public schools in the state.
In addition to that, Eugene McDermott and his wife Margaret McDermott were also a major philanthropists in the Dallas area. As part of the University, Margaret McDermott actually founded a scholars program that is an entirely merit based means of attaining education at the University of Texas at Dallas (fully paid for plus stipend), you can find out more if you google McDermott Scholarship UTD. If you ever visit Dallas you will often see the McDermott name in many places, including a performance hall in the Winspear Opera House, the Dallas Museum of Art, and most notably a Margaret McDermott Bridge (which has a very unique design and a story that relates to five tables that can be found at UT Dallas and UT southwestern). Both of these individuals took it upon themselves to improve the community that surrounded them and were incredible people in general. I sadly was unable to meet Mr. McDermott, but I was able to meet Mrs. McDermott and she was a very sweet lady (and she lived to be 106 years of age). Dallas is thankful to call them our own.
@@stevewilkens5134 Ayee best of luck! I heard CS is a hard major there. I recently graduated with a Political Science degree myself. UTD isn't known for its social scene, but it does exist! My advice is to get involved on campus. I'm no social butterfly, but it is worth it to join clubs, attend events (especially Multicultural Center and Office of Student Volunteerism events, those are great), and do more than just attend classes. Get out of your comfort zone a little. It's a great way to make friends and form a positive relationship with your university. There's a great variety of clubs too: cultural groups, religious groups, political groups, academic groups, professional groups, service groups, and niche special interest groups. If you're into sports, UREC has intermural and club sports. There's also a lot of great programs that allow you to travel, like the Global Leadership Retreat, Alternative Spring Break, etc. Some clubs have conferences you can go to. Last bit of advice is to use all the resources you can find on campus. Again, best of luck as you start your next adventure!
Brit here and Casio is what I've always known as the standard calculator for school. The FX-83/85 and later the FX-991 (a more advanced variant) are the only ones i've ever known and were recommended by our teachers, anything else would slow the class down. Never seen a TI calculator in person.
They do it by not being open the other 11 months = no overhead, very few employees. Another company like that (once owned by Woolworth) is/was San Francisco Music Box Co. They only were profitable during 'Big 6' AKA the Christmas shopping season. Like Spirit, they used mainly pop-up stores...
Yeah i noticed. His voice intonations and speed are just right, and using layman terms explaining specific technical or scientific terminologies really smoothen the messages that are being delivered. Kudos to Company Man. :D
Will Fozzy and in the US teachers don’t know how to work Casios because everyone uses TI calculators. I honestly cringed while I read you comment, that’s how much negative brand equity they have here.
Amy N that’s funny cause in the uk every teacher know exactly what to do with casino but they have no idea what to do. Honestly I don’t recall ever seeing someone with a TI in the uk
I started work at TI straight out of school as an engineer in their DLP business unit in 2006. 12 years later I still maintain they were the best company I worked for. It was a great place for a young engineer because they challenge you to exceed. I didn't sleep a lot during my time there, but it taught me a lot and made the engineer I am today.
I think another cool Bigger Than You Know would be Nissin (Foods). When most people think of Nissin, a lot of people think of Cup Noodles and Top Ramen, but they are so much more than that. And their roots in instant ramen go deeper than most people think. They even have a whole entire documentary essentially dedicated to them that’s on TH-cam called Nissin Noodles.
The calculator is probably all most people see of the company. Everything else is usually sealed inside a box with another companies logo on it. Working in electrical engineering I knew they are one of the bigger chip makers, but mostly for the smaller bits. They also make a pretty good Hobbyist circuit board, the Beaglebone
Here's a crash course on semiconductors and what they are. The most basic and common semiconductor device is a diode (more specifically called a rectifier diode). It allows electrons to only travel in one direction. This is what allows the conversion of AC (alternating current, going back and fourth) to DC (direct current, going in only one direction. The next most basic and common semiconductor device is the transistor (technical term being a bipolar junction transistor). The way this works is also pretty simple. Imagine your garden hose spigot, but instead of turning the knob to get the water flowing, you had to shoot a very small but steady stream of water at the faucet with a water gun. That's basically how a transistor works. Fun fact, originally transistors were made in tubes that would get warm and attract flying insects. The insects would land on the bulbs, die, and cause the bulbs to crack which made the transistors to no longer work. That's where the term "bug in your system" comes from.
Actually, vacuum tubes were never and have never been considered or called "transistors" (that I have seen) even if they have similar functions. But that's just me being a bit nitpicky and you probably know it and just said it like that to keep it simple.
Company man during the video: "I'm not a tech expert" Company man during sponsorship: "Bank-grade security, 256-bit SSL end-to-end encryption and multi-factor authentication go brrrrrr"
When I was a kid, my dad brought home a Texas Instruments 99/4A home computer he won at an office party. It was our first game machine, and from that machine, my dad got the programming bug and became a programmer. He still is to this day. We would also make and program our own games too. That machine changed our family's life. So Texas Instruments always has a special place in my heart.
It's cool to see TI getting recognized for more than just their calculator business. I've worked with their microcontrollers, sensors, etc. before, and I have to say that their documentation and support is probably the best I've seen. Every one of their products has a well written and easy to understand datasheet readily available on their website, and if you can't find exactly what you need, their support will walk you through it. On top of that, they have many design tools (often free!) available that makes development using their stuff miles easier than using other companies' products. As an electrical engineering student and avid hobbyist, I think they're an awesome company, and definitely would kill for an opportunity to work for them after I graduate!
Would be interested in this. Even though they aren't gone. I have a currently supported BlackBerry here. But, the chipset in the one and only BlackBerry tablet, the PlayBook, was made by, you guessed it. Texas Instruments. 🙂
You forgot to mention that McDermott and some other people from TI founded a university in addition to everything else they did. It's called UT Dallas now. I don't know how common it is, if it's even common at all for companies to found schools as this is the only occurrence I know of such a thing.
There is actually some interesting history behind WHY TI is known for their calculators, and also why you don't ever see any other calculators used in schools hardly. I suggest watching Lazy Game Reviews video called The Pocket Calculator Wars, and also his follow up Why are Texas Instrument Calculators so Expensive. Really good videos with a good amount of info in them.
Basically no one had a TI calculator in the math classes I was in. Now, this was in Canada and in classes that didn't need graphing calculators, but still.
For calculators, it’s just an American thing, I assume. In the UK (where I’m from), Texas Instruments just doesn’t exist and Casio is the recommended calculator because everyone has it. The section saying that TI is automatically superior (that’s at least how I saw it) kind of annoyed me, because it’s assuming that everyone has the same experiences. Except for that, love the video and love the channel! Good job!
With one brief and annoying stretch back in the late 1970s when I bought a TI calculator (it was comparatively cheap), I have depended on HP calculators. Much better made, and much easier to use, once you learn the RPN system. The best part is, nobody borrows a calculator without an ‘equals’ key!
Dylan Lewis-Creser - Texas Calculators are sold all throughout Europe as well. Canada also basically exclusively uses Ti calculators. And in parts of Europe, TI is also more popular as well than any other brand.
Utter crap. Casio has frequently offered a huge discount to schools (often a false discount from artificially inflated retail pricing to achieve this), so there are a lot of schools that either buy them for class use or offer them as an discounted item to students, with some schools taking a cut for themselves. However there are and has been for decades a LOT of Texas Instruments calculators in use. When I was at school in the 80's/90's it was a 50/50 split. And even today some schools use Texas Instruments exclusively, it just depends upon who their hardware supplier is, and what they offer and at what external funding they get to allow them to buy their equipment. I was the one guy who didn't have either because I wasn't taught the complex maths functions opting for computing instead (something that was still in its infancy compared to today's classes), but I did own a Psion. It was cheap, it ran programs I'd written in Basic just fine and I was happy with it.
I’ve been using a TI N-Spire for the last four years or so. I’m about to university for chemical engineering now, so I ordered an upgraded version since mine was the cheapest you could get. I now have the TI N-Spire CX CAS, and I absolutely love it. Texas Instruments is always such a dependable company for engineers like me. I’m super happy you did a video on them!
I used to think only Texas students had this calculator. They used to have a store in Houston which was kinda like a teacher supply store along time ago. Really didn’t know everybody used it in school
I live in Europe and I use one daily for physics and chemistry calculations lol (it's the TI 30X pro Multiview. I could buy a graphing calculator, but I don't need to because when I need to do graphs quickly I am allowed to use phone apps)
All the thumbs up. :) I'm even thumbs upping all the comments under your comment right now just so they're more thumbs showing. Even my own, weird as that feels. It's such a rich subject that could be taken from so many angles. Yesterday I heard a piece on NPR about how the Sears Catalog was essential to Blacks in the Jim Crow South.
Ti are only big with calculators in the USA, they are very unknown in Europe, especially the UK because here schools get people to use Casio calculators - especially the fx-83gt plus and fx-85gt plus models a scientific calculator, nobody here really uses graphing calculators
Were i made my secondary education in portugal most of the graphing calculators were TI models. They did have a semi factory here but that probably does not matter much. Texas is also my favorite IC manufacturer because of their excellent documentation, cheap prices(for low quantities for what i buy), good availability and of course good specs+quality. My little hobby designs almost can't avoid having at least something made by them because it is the cheapest i can get with the specs i want and with a datasheet that does not make me wish to make someone hurt.
Company Man, I ran the lab were all the software for your TI-84 was tested. So knew many of it's engineers and quality testers. Thank you for this deep dive! Great job.
Texas Instruments makes some very useful chips for synthesizers. Everything Mutable Instruments makes uses TI Chips, and their modular synths are some of the most popular in the niche market. It'd be interesting if you covered Moog as a company!
I took apart guitar pedals years ago to find myself amazed that my high school calculator company was making ICs for music electronics. That's when I learned these guys at TI aren't fuckin around
If you can't solve a problem the teacher gave you with a different calculator I think you never really learned how to solve it, instead you just learned how to follow steps on a certain device. That method is not really useful.
Early scientific calculators took very different approaches to handling parentheses, and it was not always obvious when you had exceeded your calculator’s ability to handle them. From day one, HP used RPN, which doesn’t use parentheses: you solve the equation the same way you would by hand, instead of ignoring precedence of operations and expecting the calculator to keep things straight. Essentially, it’s the difference between being expected to understand and apply the math, versus copying a problem into a device and assuming it will handle it properly.
Austin Martín Hernández TI-84 is nice because it’s pretty simply formatted. N-Spire seems a bit too overly complex, and I personally didn’t like the formatting. I use TI-89 Titanium after needing a bit more than TI-84, and I like the simplicity of both - everything is grouped well and there are few features I don’t actively use.
Being from Texas, born and raised, as well as a nerd, much of the history of TI was something I already knew. I was aware that calculators were not the core of their business, but rather semiconductors. That said, I work with an engineer who used to work for TI. That company has been a monster for a very long time and that’s because of their innovative approach to building its business
I moved to Dallas 20 years ago. I remember the first time I saw the massive Texas Instruments campus at US 75 and Interstate 635 and thinking "Wow...I bet they make a lot of calculators in there." Of course they make NO calculators in there, which didn't take me long to find out.
I was raised with Texas Instrument....then again, I lived in the same area were lockheed and texas instrument were located. On our junior and senior year several of us were invited for a presentation were they offered us internships. That is where we learned that those companies went beyond calculators...or building jets.
good video, I worked TI from the late 70's into the early 90's...I worked mainly in semiconductor R&D, but I did do a short stint with the GSI division first starting out, but the 80's was a very transitional period for the electronics industry. being in R&D we worked on every new project that the company worked on, I remember our lab made the first CCD's for the Hubble Telescope and the upgraded systems for if later on. even Jack Kilby was involved in some projects still even though he was retired (1983) he was always at our staff meetings and there for consultation on various projects ... he passed in 2005 , he was a very interesting person to talk to. The Lab I worked in worked in at the south building at the main headquarters in Dallas was closed and a new building was built, it is now Kilby Labs for silicon manufacturing and integrated circuit design, very exciting things going on there these days.
Company man if you could do a bigger than you know series episode on Marriott hotels and Pepsi it would be very great of you to do and I hope you do one of those two in the future I really like your videos thank you
I had no idea TI was such a huge company. I owned a TI calculator in the 70's, it was a simple one that just did multiplication and division and cost (I think) $25-$30 at the time, which is like $100 now. Later on you could buy a calculator for $5 just about anywhere that was a fraction of the first TI calculators. Interesting vid.
Thank you so much for making this video! I worked as a Finance Manager for TI and always had to answer the inevitable question "what do y'all (because Texas) even DO?" I will forever direct everyone who asks me that question to your channel from now on.
1:59 polish textbook, just so you know in Poland CASIO calculators are the most popular in schools, almost no one have ever heard about Texas Instruments - tidbit for today ! I love your videos, I'm subscribing you for over a year. Keep it up man !
Great video! If you want to go another level deeper, you could explore TSMC! While companies like Texas Instruments and Intel both design and fabricate thier own designs, TSMC fabricates chips for companies like Nvidia (graphics cards) and Qualcomm (creators of the processors in a ton of modern mobile phones) and a host of other companies people outside of tech have actually heard of. What makes them additionally interesting, beyond their ubiquity in electronics, is that they have access to a vast wealth of highly coveted intellectual property from competing companies since they produce and prototype for so many major brands.
Spencer Martin Navarra Chew The rise and fall of Global Foundries, and the current 7nm situation. I’d be more interested in the semiconductor section of Samsung or IBM, given that they both supplied help with 14nm(12nm) and 7nm respectively to Global Foundries.
Bring up TSMC or Global Foundries and you'll inevitably stumble upon AMD. Stumble upon AMD and you'll stumble upon Intel, though you may also stumble upon Radeon and Nvidia. Any of these would be a good topic.
Ganaram Inukshuk - Radeon is not (and has never been) a company, it's simply a brand for AMD's consumer graphics cards. You're thinking of ATI, the graphics company that AMD bought and originated the Radeon brand. But there is a good thread of interconnected companies there: Global Foundries was AMD's in-house fabrication wing, before they spun it off into a seperate company. ATI was Nvidia's main competitor in the graphics processing market and actually pre-dates Nvidia by quite a long time. When AMD bought ATI they sold off Imageon, ATI's mobile graphics wing, to Qualcomm who rebranded it as Adreno, the division that still makes the graphics cores for their Snapdragon chipsets to this day. AMD also sold off most of Xilleon, ATI's video processing division. AMD kept parts of the Xilleon team to work on the UVD (Unified Video Decoder) technology embedded in the Radeon GPUs, but sold off the rest of division that mostly made chips for TVs and digital cable boxes to Broadcom.
Lotte - For sure those are good and important, but Global Foundries started as a division of AMD before being spun off in to an independent company, so that's kinda where I was leaning. Also, it's not so much of a fall and more of a cost/benefit situation. Could Global Foundries reach production levels of 7nm wafers in the near future? Probably, but is it worth the money they'd need to pour in to it when TMSC is already there and Intel (supposedly) is about to be there (Intel's 10nm is very comparable to TMSC's 7nm)? Maybe not.
The 99/4 was the first 16-bit machine and way ahead of it's time. The problem was in the tenuous birth period of the computer. Back then computers were not compatible. No one wants a computer there is no software for and no one writes software for a computer no one owns. Generally a fledgling computer would release the specs on their machine in a speculative effort to induce software writers/companies to produce programs for it. TI refused to release the specs, instead, banking on writing, selling, and profiting from their own. No software available at introduction meant no initial sales, meant no 3rd party software, meant no following sales and a very nice little computer died.
I am 51 and my 7th grade science teacher had one of those first calculators. He showed it to us in 1980 during class and said he had bought it 10 years earlier for $80. It just did the basics: add subtract multiply and divide, and was considered a miracle. To say I underestimated what TI does is an understatement. Mind blown, thanks for the great video.
One of the most decorated milestone achieved by Texas Instruments was that they were the first to make microcontroller and every Electronic engineer or enthusiasts person know how crucial microcontroller are Adc, DAC, PWD , RTOs . Without Texas instruments we would have been still living under rock or maybe in Fallout world(game where no transistor invented).
This video is very good and you focused on the rise of and the business sectors that TI diversified into with much less of your usual focus on stock numbers and charts. It would be interesting to see how they weathered the 2008-09 recession versus other large companies. From the way that you laid this video out it looks like they are so well diversified across so much of every technical industry that they may not have suffered much if any.
TI and Intel are basically the inventors of the technologies that make modern computers possible. TI also invented DLP, the projection technology used by most movie theatres these days. Next time you go to the theatre and you see that DLP logo pop up on screen, think of this video. I know TI primarily as a semiconductor company, but as others have mentioned, they only really dominate the scientific calculator market in the US. Here in Canada we have a good mix of TI and Casio, with the occasional Sharp thrown in for good measure.
Id say it was Bell labs and the technology they pioneered that was what made modern computers possible. especially the people who later left it with their ideas after working there and started their own company's
You're being pedantic. My point was that Intel and TI made the Integrated Circuits that led to modern computers. If you go down the rabbit hole of the development of semiconductors in general, sure Bell Labs is important, but so are all the people who came before like Lee De Forest, Thomas Edison, and so on...
@@SpencerN.C. Bell labs id still argue is more important because they were actively a part of and often trained the people that later created TI, Fairchild and the like. by saying "so are all the people who came before like Lee De Forest, Thomas Edison, and so on..." your being the pedantic one as those people had nothing to do with digital electronics where Bell Labs often did it first
Dana Vixen - I'm not arguing the value of Bell Labs or its alumni. Go reread my posts. I'm saying that microprocessors are the thing that makes modern computers possible. Intel and TI are the entities that are primarily for their creation. Full stop. When I brought up the pioneers I was trying to demonstrate that if you want to argue that microprocessors are not the "start point" for the modern age of computers you need argue a clear alternative. I assumed you're arguing Bell Labs as they developed the first functioning transistors, but Lee De Forest invented the triode vacuum tube - the literal foundation of digital electronics, so I could just as easily argue he's more important than Bell Labs. But why stop there? Vacuum tubes were based on the Edison lightbulb, so one could argue he's more important. You have to pick a subjective "start point" and I argue it's microprocessors. Yes, Bell Labs is very important to modern electronics, they've invented many things and trained many talented engineers, but none of that is salient to my point. TI and Intel invented the microprocessor. Every modern computer has at least one (usually many) microprocessors. That's it.
My dad worked for TI for 30 years. He brought home a Speak-and-Spell and Speak-and-Math, and my first computer was a TI-99. It wasn't until much later that I even realized they made calculators.
I think from your videos and things you’ve mentioned that we are a similar age (I turned 30 a few weeks ago! What?!) Lol anyway, so your videos give me an added layer of appreciation because most of my memories on timelines and things are similar to yours. I had those same calculators. I’m a Registered Dietitian and I still use my TI-30 for work! And it’s my same calculator from high school as well! 12 years ago!
Fun Fact: Those big computers with the vacuums? They'd sometimes have issues when bugs would crawl in them. That's where the term "bug" came from when referencing computing issues. "This program has a bug in it" yada yada.
we actually had to use the TI89 Titanium in school, but in university i swiched to the normal casio one, because we couldnt use graficscalulators any more and the sexagesimal calculating features are a huge time saver
Here in the Caribbean we aren't allowed to use graphing calculators and programmable calculators for standardized examinations; so Sharp is a very popular brand we use.
I was exposed to Texas Intruments in 1972. I was soldiering at Ft. Monmouth, NJ. I was a student and then an instructor of general crypto repair. I was trained on the use and repair of a piece of equipment that was considered ground breaking at the time, but it was classified. I was a voice encryption device the size of a loaf of bread. We had been told that the integrated circuit was developed under a defense contact for this device by Texas instruments. It went into just about everything from Airforce 1 to the Apollo moon missions. Later I was transferred to the Canal Zone where I ended up as the calibration coordinator for US Army stratcom South. Much of the equipment that required calibration were either Texas Instruments or Hewlett Packard. I spent what seemed like way to much for an SR 72, in 1973. It was about the first slide rule calculator I was exposed to. Hewlwtt Packard also offered a slide rule calculator. I preferred Texas Instruments because they were less expensive than HP. I enjoyed this Company Man. Rather made me feel nostalgic.
I've never needed a TI calculator in grade school, nor did anyone else in my classes. Probably helps that I wasn't in calculus or algebra or anything that needs a graphing calculator. But still, I was able to use my Casio fx300ES PLUS just fine. I do own a TI-84, because why not, but didn't need it. This is in Canada BTW.
I actually knew TI for it's electronic components before I came into contact with their calculators. In my school, as in most of my country, actually the Casio calculators are standard, paticularly, the S-V.P.A.M series. When it comes to programable calcs, at least in my campus though, it the TI's. In my line of work I am yet to need one of those, but I do own a classic TI SR-10 I bought and repaired from a flea market. Could you do something about Bell Telephone and more specifically, the Bell Telephone Laboratories? Bell Labs is also a very interesting piece of the history of electronics, being among other things, where the first transistor was developed (not actually plain first, there's more to it, but still noteworthy). They also made some of the earliest if not first computer animations and the first computer generated voice in the 50's and 60's, using IBM computers.
The TI TTL Data Book (for design engineers) is still on my bookshelf. It was practically my bible for about 20 years, and I can’t bear to throw it away. I know you don’t see 74 series logic chips much any more, at least not this century, but “the world as we know it” was practically built from them back in the day.
Casio is used here, tons of kids use them they are easy to use, but i use a TI clac because it has brick breaker built in, it charges, and has an LCD screan, it can do anything, downside, cost 105 bucks here, idk how much in pounds, so oof.
Honestly I hate Texas instruments, at least the scientific calculator a. I prefer Casio's because it displayd the functions and the equations you are performing in a much simpler way. Plus Casios have more funtions they can use. As well as having a button just for going from fractions and decimals
I am an electronics hobbyist as well as an IT worker, TI makes some great microcontrollers and other parts, and I see their logo constantly in every bit of electronics I tear down.
I realize that this is an almost 4 year old video, but the algorithm brought me here after seeing your RC Cola video. My father worked for Texas Instruments in one of their production buildings up here in Attleboro, MA. I grew up with all the TI toys: Speak & Spell, Speak & Read, Speak & Math, etc. My father was a press operator and made many, many smaller components for larger pieces. It was typical factory work. Hot, longer hours, etc. His building ended up being bought out in I believe 2000 or 2001 by a company called EMC. Things just went downhill after that. The job wasn't as good. New rules, less benefits, etc. It's a damn shame. So, I've always had a fondness for TI in my heart as they were a company I was VERY familiar with, but understand if others don't know them outside of their calculators. This was a great video and brought back a lot of nostalgia from my childhood.
I had a Cassio calculator, still do. You just had follow the instructions included. I have a watch by them. Had it for 9 years and runs great. I also have a keyboard by them as well.
Good companions to this TI video would be Motorola and especially Fairchild, both of which were serious rivals with TI in the semiconductor market, and both of which have non-obvious but fascinating roots. Fairchild’s background includes early airplanes and aerial photography... they invented an ingenious way to transmit photographs electronically that newspapers used for decades. Some of their audio equipment was revolutionary 50 years ago, and is still highly prized today.
Right now though the semiconductor industry is blowing up (in the good way). Maybe it's mainly on the flash memory side of things, but it's safe to say that they are going to do very well for the next couple of years
I've used TI graphing calculators for school (it was the standard) but for scientific calculators, Casio was the most popular brand (which seems to be so for those outside the US). And speaking of Casio, I think it's also one of those companies that are bigger than we know - they not only manufacture calculators, but watches and even musical instruments (like the piano) as well.
I knew from watching some channels that deal with repairing old PCs that TI manufactured components, but I didn’t know how the company started. Cool video!
Marketing. Subway did it better. I love Quizno's but Subway had Jared and it was downhill for Quiznos. When they started closing stores, it was harder on margins for the stores that were open. That made it harder for those stores to stay open and more closed.
@@iammarkanthony1 also, I'd think it was due to a lack of a patent on toasting subs. Subway picked that up and they were done. Also, the commercials were just weird, but I'd like to hear Company Man do a more in-depth look. I really loved Quiznos!
I would say Casio calculators are better. They feel sturdy, the buttons are nice and plastic doesn't feel cheap. And best of all they generally come in at a cheaper price point.
Not only that, but the "natural display" tech they have is phenomenal. At least it was when I was in high school. My $17 Casio held its own against my classmates' $99 TIs, and I was dang proud of it.
@@jSyndeoMusic this whole Casio vs. Texas Instruments argument in the comments is really reminding me of Android vs. iPhone or Sony PlayStation vs. Microsoft Xbox lol.
My dad bought a TI-83 when it first came out in 1996 years before I was born and used it in engineering school and at work as a civil engineer for years. Now it’s the same calculator I use in my high school Algebra 2 class, 23 years later, and it holds up really well
1:54 Hey, I'm a Casio user and for almost everything in my math classes (other than graphing), my fx300es PLUS (similar to the one pictured)is able to calculate things much faster than my TI-84 counterparts. While my TI-84 counterparts have to press menu, scroll down, etc. everything I use is simply two button pushes away. Now admittedly, I may be comparing a scientific calculator to a graphing calculator, but my fx300es PLUS has a superior GUI and can do everything a graphing calculator can do just short of actually graphing (and it is a fraction of the price of a TI-84).
I never needed a graphing calculator, but the Casio Natural Display calculators saved me a bunch of time for not having to translate math into calculator style.
I used your videos to tell my teacher and business class something he didn't know. He told the class he didn't understand why Blockbuster wouldn't buy Netflix. And I told them about the Enron deal. Thanks for making me look a lot smarter than I am.
dominick253 what business class are you in that a professor doesn’t know about the Enron scandal wtf that was national news
Ahahahahahaha loved this one!
Teemo there’s a difference between knowing about the Enron scandal and an obscure deal between Enron and blockbuster in 1999....
@@ik-ub3dj he knew that just not that Blockbuster was using them for their internet streaming service. Which is why they didn't buy Netflix.
@@ik-ub3dj just liked your comment because it's Little Satan!!! TEEMO🍄🍄🍄🍄
I’m not surprised that a huge Texas company has its roots in the oil industry.
Texas is where the oil industry was born and this is where it will continue to lead in the foreseeable future. I'm proud to have been a part of it working for TI and GSI even thou I'm not from Texas and wasn't even born in the United States.
Me neither.
@@Harry_Sama Harry.......Coal, Oil and Gas created our Technological Civilization and sustains it. Without it we would be back in the pre-industrial world of 3 hundred years ago. In a agricultural community hoping we can grow enough food to sustain us for another year. Where Slavery of some form or another was a common occupation.
@@Harry_Sama Atmospheric scientists have noted a spray of anti-matter coming from lighting strikes. So there is a method to convert electrical energy and matter directly to into anti-matter. Thus gaining the energy from matter+anti-matter reactions. The largest power source ever discovered.
So Harry, just write the proper equations. Then convert them into hardware. And make a fortune on your invention.
Just do it a long distance away from me.
As the resulting gamma-ray emissions is nothing I would like to be around.
As I could not figure out how to convert the gamma-rays directly to AC power. And I have the technological sense enough not to try.
My exact thought
I repair computers, often doing component-level board repairs (diagnosing hardware issues and replacing individual board components to repair them). I mostly work on Macs now, but I've disassembled countless laptops and I don't think I have come across a single one that didn't have TI chips somewhere in them, usually several of them. TI is everywhere, it's just that nobody knows it because these days they sell the chips that board makers need to power their electronic circuits. CPUs and GPUs and RAM get all the hot tech press and all the name recognition, but TI literally makes all of the other stuff that actually makes those things work.
Also, I have to give a lot of props to TI because every time I find a chip of theirs on a board I can look it up and find a datasheet right on their website. So it's a huge help that they actually provide freely available documentation for the products they make. A lot of manufacturers do not do this.
Adam Baldwin I’ve even seen their chips in Famiclones.
Luckily workers of Apple get in hot water to make schematics for boardview and PDF available. Otherwise said repairs would be insane.
i think he is referring to the first to make transistor
Linux
I still have their 7400 series chips manual from the seventies and eighties
Ok, I knew they didn't make *all* their money from calculators -- but only *three* percent comes from calculators?! That was a very surprising fact to learn -- wow!
Most of their products are not end-consumer products but they are prob in most electronics you own.
To be fair, the calculator is a dying sector, because most everything is done on computers these days.
I think the % of their profits from calculators was probably higher before the era of cell phones. It has probably never been a dominant part of their overall income, but it probably wasn't 3% back in the 80s. Maybe more like 10.
@@PatrickCinderflame no. Pretty much everyone needs one because of school. Cant use computers or phones there.
If you knew anything about electronic components, this would have been no surprise to you.
As a hobbyist electrical engineer, Texas Instruments makes up like 75% of my integrated circuits shelf, both scrapped from old electronics, and purchased brand new from a wholesaler
Do ARM Holdings and Qualcomm next. Their products are in TI chips.
ARM would actually be a pretty interesting video because they are a huge company that doesn't have any physical products, just intellectual property that they license to other companies like TI, Apple, Qualcomm, etc.
Might as well do all tech companies lol
Then do mining companies
ARM would be great, because of what Drew said and because their origin story is super cool!
ARM would be good. Qualcomm is more of a competitor to TI...
I’ve sent this video to my husband who works at TI.
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Each year TI celebrates Jack Kilby Day. Nice t-shirts are given away to employees and there’s a huge life-size cutout of Jack for taking selfies.
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Tell me what he thinks of it.
What you think of mechanical engineering? Now a day Knowledge is judgement by certificate. I never want to study i like to work on machines to identify problem research oriented and while doing that i will study book related topic. I am expert in HVAC and Automobile. People are now a day are trust on me that i will work in Research & development department. They are avoiding me by showing that your education certificate is fulfill. I think that for Research such MNC company should be open Minded.
yeah i was stoked to see Jack mentioned too! i'm a big ti fan for a lot of reasons, and an amature engineer who grew up making things with ti components, great vid thanks!
Girish Bhalerao r/boneappletea. Also, you should continue to study. Those skills will be useful later on. Try going for an engineering major in college.
Awe I love little insight stories like this! So fun to get these perspectives and stories!
My brother-in-law worked for TI in the mid 70s. He used to bring home some prototype gadgets that were amazing for the time. He and my sister gave me my first calculator for Christmas in the late 70s. It was big, clunky and had those red numbers-in-a-tube. I didn’t realize how expensive that gift was until years later. It would have sold for several hundred dollars.
Nixie tubes?
Lol, yes. I never knew what they were called!
Another first for Texas Instruments that most people don't know about: they were the first company to make a programmable 2d and 3d graphics accelerator chip way back in 1986 (the TMS 34010). These chips were at the heart of many arcade machines in the late 80s and early 90s. Several companies packaged them on expansion cards you could buy for home computers or workstations, but they were really expensive, so that's why the most exposure they got was in arcade cabinets.
I loved that chip! Hercules made a PC board using it called the Graphics Station card.
Some of the founders of TI including Eugene McDermott saw the need for another university in the Dallas area and founded the Graduate Research Center of the Southwest in 1962, which at that time contributed to the space race. They then donated the school to the State of Texas in 1969 and became The University of Texas at Dallas, now a growing university ranked one of the best public schools in the state.
In addition to that, Eugene McDermott and his wife Margaret McDermott were also a major philanthropists in the Dallas area. As part of the University, Margaret McDermott actually founded a scholars program that is an entirely merit based means of attaining education at the University of Texas at Dallas (fully paid for plus stipend), you can find out more if you google McDermott Scholarship UTD. If you ever visit Dallas you will often see the McDermott name in many places, including a performance hall in the Winspear Opera House, the Dallas Museum of Art, and most notably a Margaret McDermott Bridge (which has a very unique design and a story that relates to five tables that can be found at UT Dallas and UT southwestern). Both of these individuals took it upon themselves to improve the community that surrounded them and were incredible people in general. I sadly was unable to meet Mr. McDermott, but I was able to meet Mrs. McDermott and she was a very sweet lady (and she lived to be 106 years of age). Dallas is thankful to call them our own.
@@johndavis6653 What is this about tables?
Yo I'm about to go there for CS 😂
@@stevewilkens5134 Ayee best of luck! I heard CS is a hard major there. I recently graduated with a Political Science degree myself. UTD isn't known for its social scene, but it does exist! My advice is to get involved on campus. I'm no social butterfly, but it is worth it to join clubs, attend events (especially Multicultural Center and Office of Student Volunteerism events, those are great), and do more than just attend classes. Get out of your comfort zone a little. It's a great way to make friends and form a positive relationship with your university. There's a great variety of clubs too: cultural groups, religious groups, political groups, academic groups, professional groups, service groups, and niche special interest groups. If you're into sports, UREC has intermural and club sports. There's also a lot of great programs that allow you to travel, like the Global Leadership Retreat, Alternative Spring Break, etc. Some clubs have conferences you can go to. Last bit of advice is to use all the resources you can find on campus. Again, best of luck as you start your next adventure!
@@andrewnjo429 thanks so much!
US - Texas Instruments
Everywhere else - Casio
i agree 100%
True
finland TI i think
Nope. In german schools Texas Instruments is/was also standard equipment.
Timico1000 May depend on the Bundesland, but it wasn‘t for me
Could you make video about Nokia? People think that it doesn't do anything anymore.
How did you comment so fast?
patrons probably get to watch the videos earlier
Nokia’s new phones look super nice
Are you commenting yesterday, today?
Brit here and Casio is what I've always known as the standard calculator for school. The FX-83/85 and later the FX-991 (a more advanced variant) are the only ones i've ever known and were recommended by our teachers, anything else would slow the class down. Never seen a TI calculator in person.
LGR did a video on the history of calculators. It was pretty cool seeing just how much variety there was in the 70s.
Yep! LGR is the best.
He did an addendum on the calculator wars and how TI cornered the market and beat Casio as the brand teachers prefer.
And how much of a luxury they were then compared to now.
which the us killed :(
@@paper_pirate so true
Can you do a video on Spirit Halloween please, I always wonder how they stay in buisness when they only sell during one month
They do it by not being open the other 11 months = no overhead, very few employees. Another company like that (once owned by Woolworth) is/was San Francisco Music Box Co. They only were profitable during 'Big 6' AKA the Christmas shopping season. Like Spirit, they used mainly pop-up stores...
They have an online store for the rest of the year.
Their parent company is Spencer's, AKA that store that competes with Hot Topic.
Hey now there's a fantastic video idea!
They actually sell for at least three months now thanks to holiday creep. I've seen them open in August, nearly three months before Halloween.
Who else thinks this dude is really cool and explains things very well?
Keep up these amazing videos!
almost. he's almost both.
Yeah i noticed.
His voice intonations and speed are just right, and using layman terms explaining specific technical or scientific terminologies really smoothen the messages that are being delivered.
Kudos to Company Man.
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@@ishaqhakim8483 yes lol
yeah i love him
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Also do a video on the rise of Company Man
Prince Lorian lol
We have to wait for the fall for that
Facts
Ari Kadribasic and rise again
“Bigger than you know”
Its weird because in the UK, at school everyone has Casino and no one has TI
Will Fozzy and in the US teachers don’t know how to work Casios because everyone uses TI calculators. I honestly cringed while I read you comment, that’s how much negative brand equity they have here.
Amy N that’s funny cause in the uk every teacher know exactly what to do with casino but they have no idea what to do. Honestly I don’t recall ever seeing someone with a TI in the uk
@@Fozzy1776 its Casio not casino....
LGR's video about TI calculators will explain that
PorcuPineAppleSauce cool I’ll go and check that out
I started work at TI straight out of school as an engineer in their DLP business unit in 2006. 12 years later I still maintain they were the best company I worked for. It was a great place for a young engineer because they challenge you to exceed. I didn't sleep a lot during my time there, but it taught me a lot and made the engineer I am today.
I think another cool Bigger Than You Know would be Nissin (Foods). When most people think of Nissin, a lot of people think of Cup Noodles and Top Ramen, but they are so much more than that. And their roots in instant ramen go deeper than most people think. They even have a whole entire documentary essentially dedicated to them that’s on TH-cam called Nissin Noodles.
If theres already a whole documentary on it why would he make a video on it?
NISSIN upside down is NISSIN
@@SomeBartender no its not you didnt flip the Ns
@@illford The N's flip correctly as long as its not lower case
I thought you was talking about Nissan lol
The calculator is probably all most people see of the company. Everything else is usually sealed inside a box with another companies logo on it. Working in electrical engineering I knew they are one of the bigger chip makers, but mostly for the smaller bits. They also make a pretty good Hobbyist circuit board, the Beaglebone
PepsiCo - Bigger than you know
Rise and Fall of Nokia
What In Carnation? Yeah and maybe The rise the fall and the rise again of HP or maybe how HP split into HP Inc and HP Enterprises Inc
Coldfusion has a great video on the rise and fall of Nokia, I suggest you check it out
And rise again
Yes he should definitely do PepsiCo bigger then you know
What In Carnation? Nokia really needs to make a 4G LTE version of the new 3310. Tmobile is shutting down 2G and 3G aggressively within the next year.
Here's a crash course on semiconductors and what they are.
The most basic and common semiconductor device is a diode (more specifically called a rectifier diode). It allows electrons to only travel in one direction. This is what allows the conversion of AC (alternating current, going back and fourth) to DC (direct current, going in only one direction.
The next most basic and common semiconductor device is the transistor (technical term being a bipolar junction transistor). The way this works is also pretty simple. Imagine your garden hose spigot, but instead of turning the knob to get the water flowing, you had to shoot a very small but steady stream of water at the faucet with a water gun. That's basically how a transistor works.
Fun fact, originally transistors were made in tubes that would get warm and attract flying insects. The insects would land on the bulbs, die, and cause the bulbs to crack which made the transistors to no longer work. That's where the term "bug in your system" comes from.
Actually, vacuum tubes were never and have never been considered or called "transistors" (that I have seen) even if they have similar functions. But that's just me being a bit nitpicky and you probably know it and just said it like that to keep it simple.
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@@gabriellucena6583 True, they were referred to as valves.
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Company man during the video: "I'm not a tech expert"
Company man during sponsorship: "Bank-grade security, 256-bit SSL end-to-end encryption and multi-factor authentication go brrrrrr"
When I was a kid, my dad brought home a Texas Instruments 99/4A home computer he won at an office party. It was our first game machine, and from that machine, my dad got the programming bug and became a programmer. He still is to this day. We would also make and program our own games too. That machine changed our family's life. So Texas Instruments always has a special place in my heart.
It's cool to see TI getting recognized for more than just their calculator business. I've worked with their microcontrollers, sensors, etc. before, and I have to say that their documentation and support is probably the best I've seen. Every one of their products has a well written and easy to understand datasheet readily available on their website, and if you can't find exactly what you need, their support will walk you through it. On top of that, they have many design tools (often free!) available that makes development using their stuff miles easier than using other companies' products.
As an electrical engineering student and avid hobbyist, I think they're an awesome company, and definitely would kill for an opportunity to work for them after I graduate!
Do the rise and fall of Blackberry👌
Would be interested in this. Even though they aren't gone. I have a currently supported BlackBerry here. But, the chipset in the one and only BlackBerry tablet, the PlayBook, was made by, you guessed it. Texas Instruments. 🙂
As someone who still buys Blackberry devices, I'd love to see this.
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@TechTingz they made somewhere of a come back
You forgot to mention that McDermott and some other people from TI founded a university in addition to everything else they did. It's called UT Dallas now. I don't know how common it is, if it's even common at all for companies to found schools as this is the only occurrence I know of such a thing.
There is actually some interesting history behind WHY TI is known for their calculators, and also why you don't ever see any other calculators used in schools hardly. I suggest watching Lazy Game Reviews video called The Pocket Calculator Wars, and also his follow up Why are Texas Instrument Calculators so Expensive. Really good videos with a good amount of info in them.
Basically no one had a TI calculator in the math classes I was in. Now, this was in Canada and in classes that didn't need graphing calculators, but still.
When did you graduate?
Thanks for the recommendation!
For calculators, it’s just an American thing, I assume. In the UK (where I’m from), Texas Instruments just doesn’t exist and Casio is the recommended calculator because everyone has it. The section saying that TI is automatically superior (that’s at least how I saw it) kind of annoyed me, because it’s assuming that everyone has the same experiences. Except for that, love the video and love the channel! Good job!
Dylan Lewis-Creser yah but as someone who’s had a Casio and a TI the TI is 100% better. It’s just easier to use
With one brief and annoying stretch back in the late 1970s when I bought a TI calculator (it was comparatively cheap), I have depended on HP calculators. Much better made, and much easier to use, once you learn the RPN system. The best part is, nobody borrows a calculator without an ‘equals’ key!
Dylan Lewis-Creser - Texas Calculators are sold all throughout Europe as well. Canada also basically exclusively uses Ti calculators. And in parts of Europe, TI is also more popular as well than any other brand.
Bro you were featured in company man's recent video. Casio*
Utter crap. Casio has frequently offered a huge discount to schools (often a false discount from artificially inflated retail pricing to achieve this), so there are a lot of schools that either buy them for class use or offer them as an discounted item to students, with some schools taking a cut for themselves.
However there are and has been for decades a LOT of Texas Instruments calculators in use. When I was at school in the 80's/90's it was a 50/50 split. And even today some schools use Texas Instruments exclusively, it just depends upon who their hardware supplier is, and what they offer and at what external funding they get to allow them to buy their equipment.
I was the one guy who didn't have either because I wasn't taught the complex maths functions opting for computing instead (something that was still in its infancy compared to today's classes), but I did own a Psion. It was cheap, it ran programs I'd written in Basic just fine and I was happy with it.
I’ve been using a TI N-Spire for the last four years or so. I’m about to university for chemical engineering now, so I ordered an upgraded version since mine was the cheapest you could get. I now have the TI N-Spire CX CAS, and I absolutely love it. Texas Instruments is always such a dependable company for engineers like me. I’m super happy you did a video on them!
I used to think only Texas students had this calculator. They used to have a store in Houston which was kinda like a teacher supply store along time ago. Really didn’t know everybody used it in school
Mill 5700 I thought the same
This series lives up to its title for sure
Mill 5700 same
Lol 😂
I live in Europe and I use one daily for physics and chemistry calculations lol (it's the TI 30X pro Multiview. I could buy a graphing calculator, but I don't need to because when I need to do graphs quickly I am allowed to use phone apps)
I live in Michigan (basically the opposite of Texas haha) and I was surprised we had that brand until I saw this video
Should do a video on Sears they just filed for chapter 11 bankruptcy
Pat Carrillo he should
He already did one on Kmart but a follow up video would be great.
Also, Sears Holdings just got sued by my school district. It’s a very interesting case,
Alyson Awesome what about though
All the thumbs up. :) I'm even thumbs upping all the comments under your comment right now just so they're more thumbs showing. Even my own, weird as that feels.
It's such a rich subject that could be taken from so many angles. Yesterday I heard a piece on NPR about how the Sears Catalog was essential to Blacks in the Jim Crow South.
Ti are only big with calculators in the USA, they are very unknown in Europe, especially the UK because here schools get people to use Casio calculators - especially the fx-83gt plus and fx-85gt plus models a scientific calculator, nobody here really uses graphing calculators
Graphing calculators are only really necessary if you're doing further maths at A level or maths at uni.
Were i made my secondary education in portugal most of the graphing calculators were TI models. They did have a semi factory here but that probably does not matter much.
Texas is also my favorite IC manufacturer because of their excellent documentation, cheap prices(for low quantities for what i buy), good availability and of course good specs+quality. My little hobby designs almost can't avoid having at least something made by them because it is the cheapest i can get with the specs i want and with a datasheet that does not make me wish to make someone hurt.
LGR made a video about why TI graphic calculators were the defacto standard in the US: th-cam.com/video/zoGl8-Wc-L0/w-d-xo.html
@Shajen, there's no use for a graphing calculator in uni maths
TI is the default in Not Europe. That's a lot of real estate.
I have a TI-35 Plus calculator, from 1989. Bought it new and it still works great.
Company Man, I ran the lab were all the software for your TI-84 was tested. So knew many of it's engineers and quality testers. Thank you for this deep dive! Great job.
Texas Instruments makes some very useful chips for synthesizers. Everything Mutable Instruments makes uses TI Chips, and their modular synths are some of the most popular in the niche market. It'd be interesting if you covered Moog as a company!
Moog episode would be good especially with them no longer being employee owned
I took apart guitar pedals years ago to find myself amazed that my high school calculator company was making ICs for music electronics. That's when I learned these guys at TI aren't fuckin around
Nothing against Casio, but you were holding up the class.
(most places outside of the US) Nothing against IT, but you were holding up the class.
Back when I was an engineering student (1970s), the go-to scientific calculator was a Hewlett-Packard. If you had a TI, you were holding up the class!
If you can't solve a problem the teacher gave you with a different calculator I think you never really learned how to solve it, instead you just learned how to follow steps on a certain device. That method is not really useful.
Early scientific calculators took very different approaches to handling parentheses, and it was not always obvious when you had exceeded your calculator’s ability to handle them. From day one, HP used RPN, which doesn’t use parentheses: you solve the equation the same way you would by hand, instead of ignoring precedence of operations and expecting the calculator to keep things straight. Essentially, it’s the difference between being expected to understand and apply the math, versus copying a problem into a device and assuming it will handle it properly.
Austin Martín Hernández TI-84 is nice because it’s pretty simply formatted. N-Spire seems a bit too overly complex, and I personally didn’t like the formatting. I use TI-89 Titanium after needing a bit more than TI-84, and I like the simplicity of both - everything is grouped well and there are few features I don’t actively use.
Being from Texas, born and raised, as well as a nerd, much of the history of TI was something I already knew. I was aware that calculators were not the core of their business, but rather semiconductors. That said, I work with an engineer who used to work for TI. That company has been a monster for a very long time and that’s because of their innovative approach to building its business
I moved to Dallas 20 years ago. I remember the first time I saw the massive Texas Instruments campus at US 75 and Interstate 635 and thinking "Wow...I bet they make a lot of calculators in there." Of course they make NO calculators in there, which didn't take me long to find out.
Do Smaller Than You Know: My Confidence
pyrobison2002 can’t do something that doesn’t exist
What about doing a video on Publix? I know they aren't the biggest but they still are super big in the SE
They are the largest employer here in Florida.
Man Publix is so expensive
And the largest employee-owned corporation in the US
Agreed. Publix has a cult following in the South. Would be a good video.
Publix is small fry compared to Kroger brands... which are nationwide and change names region to region. Many shop at Kroger without realizing it.
3M - Bigger than you know
leonardo bonilla he should also do Marriott Hotels and PepsiCo
They make everything from stage blood to to police jackets.
Yes!
I saw that 3M was involved in the medical codes used in hospitals
Now I see that logo everywhere I go even on my school supplies
@@imnotyourunicorn91 I heard they make tape
leonardo bonilla i thought 3M only made tape and ear guards like ear plugs
I was raised with Texas Instrument....then again, I lived in the same area were lockheed and texas instrument were located. On our junior and senior year several of us were invited for a presentation were they offered us internships. That is where we learned that those companies went beyond calculators...or building jets.
what did TI do that Lockheed didn't?
good video, I worked TI from the late 70's into the early 90's...I worked mainly in semiconductor R&D, but I did do a short stint with the GSI division first starting out, but the 80's was a very transitional period for the electronics industry. being in R&D we worked on every new project that the company worked on, I remember our lab made the first CCD's for the Hubble Telescope and the upgraded systems for if later on. even Jack Kilby was involved in some projects still even though he was retired (1983) he was always at our staff meetings and there for consultation on various projects ... he passed in 2005 , he was a very interesting person to talk to. The Lab I worked in worked in at the south building at the main headquarters in Dallas was closed and a new building was built, it is now Kilby Labs for silicon manufacturing and integrated circuit design, very exciting things going on there these days.
Company man if you could do a bigger than you know series episode on Marriott hotels and Pepsi it would be very great of you to do and I hope you do one of those two in the future I really like your videos thank you
Phineas 626 I think that’s a good idea
Phineas 626 oh we need that video a lot!
I third this. Pepsi Co actually owns a shit ton more than people think
Pepsi is a good choice
Phineas 626 he should also do BTYK on Albertons Grocery Stores and 3M
When he Talks about everyone having a Texas instruments, and meanwhile in Europe everyone is using Casio or HP calculators XD
I've never seen in one in real life, probably because its soo expensive
Not at all, in France everyone has a Texas instruments in High school and university (Casio is for middle school)
here in the United States nobody uses Casio or HP for their calculators
I had no idea TI was such a huge company. I owned a TI calculator in the 70's, it was a simple one that just did multiplication and division and cost (I think) $25-$30 at the time, which is like $100 now. Later on you could buy a calculator for $5 just about anywhere that was a fraction of the first TI calculators. Interesting vid.
Thank you so much for making this video! I worked as a Finance Manager for TI and always had to answer the inevitable question "what do y'all (because Texas) even DO?" I will forever direct everyone who asks me that question to your channel from now on.
1:59 polish textbook, just so you know in Poland CASIO calculators are the most popular in schools, almost no one have ever heard about Texas Instruments - tidbit for today ! I love your videos, I'm subscribing you for over a year. Keep it up man !
you should have included TI's acquisition of National Semiconductor - this shows just how massive TI is
Great video! If you want to go another level deeper, you could explore TSMC! While companies like Texas Instruments and Intel both design and fabricate thier own designs, TSMC fabricates chips for companies like Nvidia (graphics cards) and Qualcomm (creators of the processors in a ton of modern mobile phones) and a host of other companies people outside of tech have actually heard of. What makes them additionally interesting, beyond their ubiquity in electronics, is that they have access to a vast wealth of highly coveted intellectual property from competing companies since they produce and prototype for so many major brands.
If he'd gone with AMD instead of TI, it would be a great inception
Spencer Martin Navarra Chew The rise and fall of Global Foundries, and the current 7nm situation. I’d be more interested in the semiconductor section of Samsung or IBM, given that they both supplied help with 14nm(12nm) and 7nm respectively to Global Foundries.
Bring up TSMC or Global Foundries and you'll inevitably stumble upon AMD. Stumble upon AMD and you'll stumble upon Intel, though you may also stumble upon Radeon and Nvidia. Any of these would be a good topic.
Ganaram Inukshuk -
Radeon is not (and has never been) a company, it's simply a brand for AMD's consumer graphics cards. You're thinking of ATI, the graphics company that AMD bought and originated the Radeon brand. But there is a good thread of interconnected companies there:
Global Foundries was AMD's in-house fabrication wing, before they spun it off into a seperate company. ATI was Nvidia's main competitor in the graphics processing market and actually pre-dates Nvidia by quite a long time. When AMD bought ATI they sold off Imageon, ATI's mobile graphics wing, to Qualcomm who rebranded it as Adreno, the division that still makes the graphics cores for their Snapdragon chipsets to this day.
AMD also sold off most of Xilleon, ATI's video processing division. AMD kept parts of the Xilleon team to work on the UVD (Unified Video Decoder) technology embedded in the Radeon GPUs, but sold off the rest of division that mostly made chips for TVs and digital cable boxes to Broadcom.
Lotte -
For sure those are good and important, but Global Foundries started as a division of AMD before being spun off in to an independent company, so that's kinda where I was leaning.
Also, it's not so much of a fall and more of a cost/benefit situation. Could Global Foundries reach production levels of 7nm wafers in the near future? Probably, but is it worth the money they'd need to pour in to it when TMSC is already there and Intel (supposedly) is about to be there (Intel's 10nm is very comparable to TMSC's 7nm)? Maybe not.
I had a Texas Instruments TI-99/4A computer growing up.
The 99/4 was the first 16-bit machine and way ahead of it's time. The problem was in the tenuous birth period of the computer. Back then computers were not compatible.
No one wants a computer there is no software for and no one writes software for a computer no one owns. Generally a fledgling computer would release the specs on their machine in a speculative effort to induce software writers/companies to produce programs for it.
TI refused to release the specs, instead, banking on writing, selling, and profiting from their own. No software available at introduction meant no initial sales, meant no 3rd party software, meant no following sales and a very nice little computer died.
I am 51 and my 7th grade science teacher had one of those first calculators. He showed it to us in 1980 during class and said he had bought it 10 years earlier for $80. It just did the basics: add subtract multiply and divide, and was considered a miracle.
To say I underestimated what TI does is an understatement. Mind blown, thanks for the great video.
One of the most decorated milestone achieved by Texas Instruments was that they were the first to make microcontroller and every Electronic engineer or enthusiasts person know how crucial microcontroller are Adc, DAC, PWD , RTOs . Without Texas instruments we would have been still living under rock or maybe in Fallout world(game where no transistor invented).
Hmmmm.....ok mr science
This video is very good and you focused on the rise of and the business sectors that TI diversified into with much less of your usual focus on stock numbers and charts.
It would be interesting to see how they weathered the 2008-09 recession versus other large companies. From the way that you laid this video out it looks like they are so well diversified across so much of every technical industry that they may not have suffered much if any.
TI and Intel are basically the inventors of the technologies that make modern computers possible. TI also invented DLP, the projection technology used by most movie theatres these days. Next time you go to the theatre and you see that DLP logo pop up on screen, think of this video.
I know TI primarily as a semiconductor company, but as others have mentioned, they only really dominate the scientific calculator market in the US. Here in Canada we have a good mix of TI and Casio, with the occasional Sharp thrown in for good measure.
Id say it was Bell labs and the technology they pioneered that was what made modern computers possible. especially the people who later left it with their ideas after working there and started their own company's
You're being pedantic. My point was that Intel and TI made the Integrated Circuits that led to modern computers. If you go down the rabbit hole of the development of semiconductors in general, sure Bell Labs is important, but so are all the people who came before like Lee De Forest, Thomas Edison, and so on...
@@SpencerN.C. Bell labs id still argue is more important because they were actively a part of and often trained the people that later created TI, Fairchild and the like. by saying "so are all the people who came before like Lee De Forest, Thomas Edison, and so on..." your being the pedantic one as those people had nothing to do with digital electronics where Bell Labs often did it first
Joe Al -
Yep, and DSPs and SoCs and USB Interfaces and hundreds of other types of ICs and semiconductors.
Dana Vixen -
I'm not arguing the value of Bell Labs or its alumni. Go reread my posts.
I'm saying that microprocessors are the thing that makes modern computers possible. Intel and TI are the entities that are primarily for their creation. Full stop.
When I brought up the pioneers I was trying to demonstrate that if you want to argue that microprocessors are not the "start point" for the modern age of computers you need argue a clear alternative. I assumed you're arguing Bell Labs as they developed the first functioning transistors, but Lee De Forest invented the triode vacuum tube - the literal foundation of digital electronics, so I could just as easily argue he's more important than Bell Labs. But why stop there? Vacuum tubes were based on the Edison lightbulb, so one could argue he's more important. You have to pick a subjective "start point" and I argue it's microprocessors.
Yes, Bell Labs is very important to modern electronics, they've invented many things and trained many talented engineers, but none of that is salient to my point. TI and Intel invented the microprocessor. Every modern computer has at least one (usually many) microprocessors. That's it.
State of TEXAS, BIGGER than you thought.
More corruption, more incest, more violation of civil rights.
Texas isn't Arizona...
You're thinking of Alaska. :) If it were to scale on typical US maps they would be a lot less useful because it would take up half the page.
@@frankschneider6156 Texas, corruption? Sure, we have some just like everywhere else, but it's far less...
@@frankschneider6156 you're thinking about Alabama
Ah Texas Instruments, the only company that can sell a calculator from 2004 for over $100 in 2021
My dad worked for TI for 30 years. He brought home a Speak-and-Spell and Speak-and-Math, and my first computer was a TI-99. It wasn't until much later that I even realized they made calculators.
I think from your videos and things you’ve mentioned that we are a similar age (I turned 30 a few weeks ago! What?!) Lol anyway, so your videos give me an added layer of appreciation because most of my memories on timelines and things are similar to yours. I had those same calculators. I’m a Registered Dietitian and I still use my TI-30 for work! And it’s my same calculator from high school as well! 12 years ago!
Fun Fact: Those big computers with the vacuums? They'd sometimes have issues when bugs would crawl in them. That's where the term "bug" came from when referencing computing issues. "This program has a bug in it" yada yada.
idk in engineering that cs is part of a "bug" was used for malfunctions long before any computers
Here in Germany all of the teachers recommend Casio, probably because TI isn't as popular as Casio here in Germany. :'D
we actually had to use the TI89 Titanium in school, but in university i swiched to the normal casio one, because we couldnt use graficscalulators any more and the sexagesimal calculating features are a huge time saver
Same it France and for probably the rest of Europe.
Here in the Caribbean we aren't allowed to use graphing calculators and programmable calculators for standardized examinations; so Sharp is a very popular brand we use.
I was exposed to Texas Intruments in 1972. I was soldiering at Ft. Monmouth, NJ. I was a student and then an instructor of general crypto repair.
I was trained on the use and repair of a piece of equipment that was considered ground breaking at the time, but it was classified. I was a voice encryption device the size of a loaf of bread. We had been told that the integrated circuit was developed under a defense contact for this device by Texas instruments. It went into just about everything from Airforce 1 to the Apollo moon missions.
Later I was transferred to the Canal Zone where I ended up as the calibration coordinator for US Army stratcom South. Much of the equipment that required calibration were either Texas Instruments or Hewlett Packard.
I spent what seemed like way to much for an SR 72, in 1973. It was about the first slide rule calculator I was exposed to. Hewlwtt Packard also offered a slide rule calculator. I preferred Texas Instruments because they were less expensive than HP.
I enjoyed this Company Man. Rather made me feel nostalgic.
Just the name Texas Instruments gives me all kinds of anxiety expensive calculators and Math.
Your profile picture made me think there was a hair on my screen...
Do one on TSMC to keep the company-ception going.
Harvey Chui thought the same thing!
I've never needed a TI calculator in grade school, nor did anyone else in my classes. Probably helps that I wasn't in calculus or algebra or anything that needs a graphing calculator. But still, I was able to use my Casio fx300ES PLUS just fine. I do own a TI-84, because why not, but didn't need it. This is in Canada BTW.
In Europe and Asia we use Casio calculators, so when he joked about "that one kid in class" it would be the American in our classes
So in other words, Texas Instruments one of the behind the scenes companies that make electronics possible. Cool.
I threw some C Cell batteries in my old Texas Instruments Speak and Spell and still works like a charm
I actually knew TI for it's electronic components before I came into contact with their calculators. In my school, as in most of my country, actually the Casio calculators are standard, paticularly, the S-V.P.A.M series.
When it comes to programable calcs, at least in my campus though, it the TI's. In my line of work I am yet to need one of those, but I do own a classic TI SR-10 I bought and repaired from a flea market.
Could you do something about Bell Telephone and more specifically, the Bell Telephone Laboratories? Bell Labs is also a very interesting piece of the history of electronics, being among other things, where the first transistor was developed (not actually plain first, there's more to it, but still noteworthy). They also made some of the earliest if not first computer animations and the first computer generated voice in the 50's and 60's, using IBM computers.
you can delve deeper to the foundries that make the chips ?
Great video! I was not surprised that Texas Instruments is that big of a company as my Dad works for them. He handles mostly in the automotive sector.
The TI TTL Data Book (for design engineers) is still on my bookshelf. It was practically my bible for about 20 years, and I can’t bear to throw it away. I know you don’t see 74 series logic chips much any more, at least not this century, but “the world as we know it” was practically built from them back in the day.
In the UK there’s literally nobody with
Ti calculators, almost all casios. Guess it makes sense considering the name though.
Casio is used here, tons of kids use them they are easy to use, but i use a TI clac because it has brick breaker built in, it charges, and has an LCD screan, it can do anything, downside, cost 105 bucks here, idk how much in pounds, so oof.
Same in New Zealand. The Casio FX9750 is pretty much the standard graphing calculator for New Zealand high schools.
you are holding back the class. yeesh
Casio is pretty much the only scientific calculator that we have in England
It's the only calculater we use too
Oof, Casio reputation sucks outside of instruments and watches.
Might be nowadays but we certainly had TI's in the late 1970s
Same with Australia. I'd never even heard of TI before this video!
Honestly I hate Texas instruments, at least the scientific calculator a. I prefer Casio's because it displayd the functions and the equations you are performing in a much simpler way. Plus Casios have more funtions they can use. As well as having a button just for going from fractions and decimals
this! Casio Masterrace
The SD button, its great. I also love my Casio
Bought a programmable Casio fx3600P in 1985. Still works (although I had to change the battery once). This is the next best thing next to a Kurta.
Make them in America for crying out loud.
I can’t stand scientific calculators so none of this applies to me.
I am an electronics hobbyist as well as an IT worker, TI makes some great microcontrollers and other parts, and I see their logo constantly in every bit of electronics I tear down.
I realize that this is an almost 4 year old video, but the algorithm brought me here after seeing your RC Cola video.
My father worked for Texas Instruments in one of their production buildings up here in Attleboro, MA. I grew up with all the TI toys: Speak & Spell, Speak & Read, Speak & Math, etc. My father was a press operator and made many, many smaller components for larger pieces. It was typical factory work. Hot, longer hours, etc. His building ended up being bought out in I believe 2000 or 2001 by a company called EMC. Things just went downhill after that. The job wasn't as good. New rules, less benefits, etc. It's a damn shame.
So, I've always had a fondness for TI in my heart as they were a company I was VERY familiar with, but understand if others don't know them outside of their calculators. This was a great video and brought back a lot of nostalgia from my childhood.
I had a Cassio calculator, still do. You just had follow the instructions included. I have a watch by them. Had it for 9 years and runs great. I also have a keyboard by them as well.
In my school, literally everyone has a Casio.
Casio more like assio
@@KKnifeBelly at least its affordable TIs in the UK are like £100 waste of money if you only do one maths based subject
In Europe, Casio is for middle school and Texas instruments for high school
@@maten146 nah nobody had TI in my classes
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Rick Hoover Good idea!
I'm still holding out for Gateway 2000 company
Good companions to this TI video would be Motorola and especially Fairchild, both of which were serious rivals with TI in the semiconductor market, and both of which have non-obvious but fascinating roots. Fairchild’s background includes early airplanes and aerial photography... they invented an ingenious way to transmit photographs electronically that newspapers used for decades. Some of their audio equipment was revolutionary 50 years ago, and is still highly prized today.
I've had a TI calculator and my teacher would completely ignore me. Casio is the standard here. 💁🏻♂️
I once found my dad's old laptop & it was made by TI
The battery doesn't work anymore but it still runs well on power adapter.
Right now though the semiconductor industry is blowing up (in the good way). Maybe it's mainly on the flash memory side of things, but it's safe to say that they are going to do very well for the next couple of years
I still use my it-30XIIS from highschool 22 years ago.
I've used TI graphing calculators for school (it was the standard) but for scientific calculators, Casio was the most popular brand (which seems to be so for those outside the US). And speaking of Casio, I think it's also one of those companies that are bigger than we know - they not only manufacture calculators, but watches and even musical instruments (like the piano) as well.
I knew from watching some channels that deal with repairing old PCs that TI manufactured components, but I didn’t know how the company started. Cool video!
Can the TI-83 calculator graph why Quiznos failed?
Marketing. Subway did it better. I love Quizno's but Subway had Jared and it was downhill for Quiznos. When they started closing stores, it was harder on margins for the stores that were open. That made it harder for those stores to stay open and more closed.
@@iammarkanthony1 also, I'd think it was due to a lack of a patent on toasting subs. Subway picked that up and they were done. Also, the commercials were just weird, but I'd like to hear Company Man do a more in-depth look. I really loved Quiznos!
mark hernandez I personally think Jared Folge should be released from the jail due to his serious downfall.
"This is the end, there's nowhere to go from here" Yeah, about that. Ti's Microprocessors have ARM cores and a host of other IP inside of them.
I would say Casio calculators are better. They feel sturdy, the buttons are nice and plastic doesn't feel cheap. And best of all they generally come in at a cheaper price point.
Not only that, but the "natural display" tech they have is phenomenal. At least it was when I was in high school. My $17 Casio held its own against my classmates' $99 TIs, and I was dang proud of it.
@@jSyndeoMusic this whole Casio vs. Texas Instruments argument in the comments is really reminding me of Android vs. iPhone or Sony PlayStation vs. Microsoft Xbox lol.
Yamato I mean, you’re not wrong. Those arguments are, for some reason, one of the Internet’s favorite pastimes.
@@jSyndeoMusic Truth.
@Austin Martín Hernandez you're idiots are seriously about to argue about which calculators are better lol only in the TH-cam comments section.
My dad bought a TI-83 when it first came out in 1996 years before I was born and used it in engineering school and at work as a civil engineer for years. Now it’s the same calculator I use in my high school Algebra 2 class, 23 years later, and it holds up really well
1:54 Hey, I'm a Casio user and for almost everything in my math classes (other than graphing), my fx300es PLUS (similar to the one pictured)is able to calculate things much faster than my TI-84 counterparts. While my TI-84 counterparts have to press menu, scroll down, etc. everything I use is simply two button pushes away. Now admittedly, I may be comparing a scientific calculator to a graphing calculator, but my fx300es PLUS has a superior GUI and can do everything a graphing calculator can do just short of actually graphing (and it is a fraction of the price of a TI-84).
I used to work there. You can get lost inside pretty easily.
So my calculator contains the very things that make this comment possible. Nice.
I didn't even know Texas instruments existed till I watched this video, and to know it was so important in modern technology is impressive
I never needed a graphing calculator, but the Casio Natural Display calculators saved me a bunch of time for not having to translate math into calculator style.
I work in the aerospace engineering industry and these guys are a MAJOR player. Their switches are some of the best.