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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
Professor Soo-Young Park and his team at the Seoul National University in Korea successfully developed a white LED with a color rendering index (CRI) closer to daylight than current white LEDs.
The development parallels the ongoing efforts by LED manufacturers who continue investing in the improvement of luminous efficiency, lifetime and the quality of light as [...]
With energy usage top of mind, who hasn’t been exposed to commercials stating “the energy produced buy the sun in one minute equals the amount used by the entire population of the planet for one year,” or a similar, hard to define claim. The truth is there’s an incredible amount of energy out there for [...]
Texas Instruments and the 2009 Solar Decathlon
Texas Instruments has long been committed to driving energy innovation. In October, TI will continue its involvement in building a greener future as a returning sponsor of the 2009 Solar Decathlon. This event brings together 20 university teams from across the globe in a competition to design, build and [...]
Today TI announced that it is sponsoring this year’s Solar Decathlon, to be held in Washington D.C. October 9-18. Similarly to 2007, 20 university teams are competing in the 2009 event and I’m sure each and every team is hacking their way through home construction, product acquisition and a myriad of design changes as problems [...]
This week, the American Council for an Energy Efficient Economy, ACEEE, released a comprehensive report titled “Semiconductor Technologies: The Potential to Revolutionize U.S. Energy Productivity”. In conjunction with this report the Semiconductor Industry Association, SIA, released a series of recommended public policies that would help ensure the energy savings that the ACEEE report identifies.
In general, [...]