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 [...]
There are many museums lining the mall in Washington D.C. These museums focus on history. For the past two weeks a museum of the future was placed on the mall as the Solar Decathlon competition took place. It was a village like no other – twenty student designed and built solar homes all striving to [...]
I’m here at the Solar Decathlon in Washington, D.C. If you ask any student to point to the silicon content in their house they will immediately point to their solar array. Very few will point to the dozens of inverters, power supplies, TV’s, computers, ipods, horizontal axis washers, LED lights, or other items that are [...]
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 [...]
Once just a glimmer in our eyes, the 2009 Department of Energy Solar Decathlon (SD09) competition is now upon us. In October, twenty university teams from around the world will bring their high-tech houses to the National Mall in Washington DC to show off their skills in super-energy-efficient home design, as well as their ability [...]
This week the final piece of a very unique project came into place at last. TI announced that the 220,000 square foot Richardson Fab (RFAB) is open for business. Pending final regulatory approval and other conditions, TI will acquire a large quantity of 300mm manufacturing tools from a bankrupt manufacturer - a reminder that even [...]
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 [...]