Texas Instruments
Coverage of Texas Instruments in the Nexus archive.
- Texas Instruments shares are sliding, and its rival is doing even worse. What’s going on in the world of analog semiconductors.
Texas Instruments and STMicroelectronics, both analog semiconductor manufacturers, experienced declining stock prices as they struggled to meet heightened expectations following reports of strong second-quarter demand.
- An Engineer's Guide to USB Type-C [pdf]
The article is a technical guide titled 'An Engineer's Guide to USB Type-C' published by Texas Instruments, providing an overview of USB Type-C specifications and design considerations. It includes a downloadable PDF and a Hacker News comment thread with minimal engagement.
- New Texas Instruments 5532 chips are not the 5532s we’ve used for decades
Texas Instruments has released new 5532 chips that differ from the older versions used for decades. The change has sparked discussion in audio engineering communities, as documented in a GroupDIY thread and Hacker News comments.
- Show HN: Forge – Guardrails take an 8B model from 53% to 99% on agentic tasks
Antoine Zambelli, AI Director at Texas Instruments, built Forge, an open-source reliability layer that improves model accuracy from 53% to 99%. Forge adds domain-and-tool-agnostic guardrails to local models running on consumer hardware. It outperforms frontier API alone and reduces the gap between local and cloud-based models.
- The big dogs of the dot-com era are barking again, 25 years later. Will they suffer the same fate?
Intel, Cisco, Qualcomm, and Texas Instruments are hitting record highs, some for the first time since the dot-com era. These companies were formerly major players in the tech industry during that time. Their recent success may indicate a resurgence in their influence.
- Ploopy’s new mouse makes the ThinkPad’s iconic TrackPoint portable
Ploopy has announced a new open source mouse called the Bean, which features a red pointing stick similar to the TrackPoint found on ThinkPad laptops. The Bean is available for preorder for $69.99 and has a highly-sensitive sensor. It can be paired with a USB cable but is not wireless.
- Texas Instruments made a new flagship graphing calculator: the TI-84 Evo
Texas Instruments has released a new flagship graphing calculator called the TI-84 Evo. The device is positioned as an updated version of their popular TI-84 series, targeting educational and professional markets.
- US Premarket Movers: CoreWeave, Instacart, Texas Instruments
S&P 500 Index futures declined 0.3% in premarket trading as optimism about the Middle East ceasefire weakened. The article highlights CoreWeave, Instacart, and Texas Instruments as key US premarket movers.