Previous TechQuest: Texas Instruments
Who Texas Instruments is:
Texas Instruments (TI) serves the world’s most innovative electronics companies, helping them develop new ideas that change the way we live. TI develops analog, digital signal processing, RF and DLP® semiconductor technologies that help customers deliver consumer and industrial electronic products with greater performance, increased power efficiency, higher precision, more mobility and better quality. Important applications include wireless, power management, video, medical devices and automotive. These applications matter to consumers all over the world and offer exciting growth and innovation opportunities. Moreover, these are applications where new semiconductor technologies can make a difference in people’s lives – bringing down costs, giving more people access, connecting us, and delivering greater safety and comfort.
With revenues topping $13 billion, TI technology is helping fuel innovative applications for many of today’s fast-growing markets. For more information, click here.
Through TechQuest, TI is seeking dialogue with companies working in common areas of interest. TI is interested in discussions with potential development partners and/or customers in the following application and technology areas (with examples):
- Medical / Health Electronics (medical devices, IC technologies, biological interfacing, robotics, actuators, sensors,..)
- Green / Energy Management
- Macro in the sense of alternative energy & energy efficiency (generation, transport, smart grid, metering, solar, wind, fuel cell, ..)
- Micro in the sense of energy harvesting, perpetual devices, low power
- Safety and Security (surveillance, biometrics, video analytics, …)
- Low power applications (low power wireless technologies, energy harvesting, sensor networks, micro batteries, mesh networking, etc.)
- Location based services (navigation, tracking, geofencing, geotagging,...)
- Microelectromechanical systems – MEMS (MEMS sensors, microphones, accelerometers, gyros, RF,...)
- Micro-opto-electromechanical systems – MOEMS (optical and electrical integration)
- Nanotechnology related to electronics or medical devices
- Open Source software for TI platforms (applications, development environments)
- Embedded applications that run (or could run) on TI platforms
- Analog Technologies (power, converters, power amps, interface circuitry,...)
- Signal Processing applications (video and audio processing, gaming, music, image enhancement,...)
- Wireless technologies and applications (emerging technologies, tunable RF front-end,…)
- Full emersion experiences (video, imaging, audio, sensory, interactivity)
- Connected Home/Home Automation
- Advanced electronics packaging technologies
- RFID technologies (printed electronics, wireless payment, low cost displays,...)
- Semiconductors (ultra low power, novel approaches,...)
- Mark Denissen- Vice President, Worldwide Strategic Marketing
- Doug Rasor- Vice President, Emerging Medical Technology
- Gene Frantz- TI Principal Fellow
- Madison Pedigo- TI Venture Capital Program
- Brent Jones- Strategic Planning
