There is an interesting emerging angle to the green movement known as the cradle to cradle concept. The concept is that all products exist in a never ending cycle — “birth to rebirth” not “birth to death” — and waste is minimized or eliminated at every step. Our own Debbie Greenstreet, marketing manager for TI’s wireless [...]
The LED Reference Design Cookbook contains 17 general, backlight and automotive reference designs. The Cookbook is designed to provide engineers with a valuable tool to help solve their lighting design needs. Customers seeking the latest in innovative and affordable LED lighting solutions can benefit from TI’s broad product portfolio of AC/DC, DC/DC, LED drivers, power [...]
TI is on-site today as a returning sponsor at the 2009 Solar Decathlon in Washington DC. Sponsored by the U.S. Department of Energy, the Solar Decathlon brings together 20 university teams from across the globe in a competition to design, build and operate the most energy-efficient and attractive solar-powered home. Tomorrow marks the first official [...]
Today, TI announced the opening of RFAB, a new manufacturing facility in Richardson, TX. RFAB will be the world’s only production facility to use 300-millimeter silicon wafers to manufacture analog chips, and the first phase of production will be capable of manufacturing more than $1 billion worth of analog chips annually.
From smartphones to netbooks, analog [...]
In case you haven’t seen it in the latest issue Newsweek: TI ranked 23rd in the magazine’s first environmental ranking of America’s 500 largest corporations!
What this means: Among U.S. companies and across all sectors, TI is doing a darn good job of operating conscientiously. We’ve worked hard to reduce environmental impact from our operations, and [...]
Starting tomorrow in the U.S., TI will host MCU Day, its largest worldwide training event to be held around the world at more than 150 locations. This free, one-day technical training event will explore TI’s broad MCU portfolio, including MSP430™ ultra-low power MCUs, C2000™ real-time MCUs and ARM® Cortex-M3-based Stellaris® MCUs as well as ARM9-based [...]
Consolidated Edison Inc.announced this week, they will partner will the New York City Economic Development Corporation, Viridity Energy, the Boeing Company and others to apply for stimulus money from the U.S. Department of Energy to help fund smart grid projects.
The Environmental Defense Fund (EDF) launched a website where companies can share best practices related [...]
This year’s Princeton Review’s Green College ratings reported a 30 percent increase in participating schools. Green projects include, Arizona State University improving lighting across campus to reduce energy demand and Colorado College’s new LEED certificatied buildings.
BrightSource, a start up solar thermal technology company announced they will begin work on a Chevron project to generate [...]
Electronic energy meters have fostered their way into the market the last decade replacing conventional electromechanical meters. This has led to increased accuracy and features, reduced cost and size, and an opportunity to get smart. Energy measurement in its purest form, is just a mathematical sum of products of voltage and current. Just like any [...]
A study released on Tuesday by Osram, the German lighting giant, confirmed that LEDs are as energy efficient as compact fluorescents, in the amount of energy needed to create, recycle and provide light.
eSolar’s CEO Bill Gross announced the grand opening of its first plant, Sierra SunTower, in California. Gross claimed the solar plant will produce [...]