{
 "licence": "CC BY 4.0",
 "licence_url": "https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/",
 "cite_as": "Nozzle4, https://nozzle4.com/data/",
 "note": "Compiled by Nozzle4 from the sources linked on each row. The facts belong to their sources; the compilation is licensed CC BY 4.0, so use it with a credit and a link.",
 "slug": "texas-instruments",
 "name": "Texas Instruments",
 "status": "listed",
 "status_label": "Listed",
 "segment": "Industrial groups and components",
 "page": "https://nozzle4.com/companies/texas-instruments/",
 "listing": {
  "exchange": "NASDAQ",
  "ticker": "TXN",
  "tradingview_symbol": "NASDAQ:TXN"
 },
 "headquarters": "Dallas, Texas, United States",
 "founded": 1930,
 "ownership": "Listed on Nasdaq (TXN)",
 "technologies": [
  "DLP chipsets",
  "digital micromirror device"
 ],
 "description": "Does not build printers. It makes the digital micromirror chip inside most DLP resin printers, from desktop machines to production systems, so its chipset releases set what those printers can resolve and what they cost.",
 "last_checked": "2026-10-23",
 "timeline": [
  {
   "date": "1987",
   "title": "Larry Hornbeck invents the digital micromirror device that DLP is built on",
   "detail": null,
   "source": "https://www.voxelmatters.com/all-you-need-to-know-about-the-past-present-and-future-of-stereolithography/"
  },
  {
   "date": "2000",
   "title": "EnvisionTEC builds the first functional DLP 3D printer on TI mirror technology",
   "detail": "VoxelMatters gives 2000; other sources date it between 2000 and 2002.",
   "source": "https://www.voxelmatters.com/all-you-need-to-know-about-the-past-present-and-future-of-stereolithography/"
  },
  {
   "date": "Nov 2014",
   "title": "Launches the DLP9000 and DLP6500 chipsets aimed at 3D printing",
   "detail": null,
   "source": "https://3dprint.com/22966/texas-instruments-dlp-3d-print/"
  },
  {
   "date": "Oct 2015",
   "title": "Introduces the DLP9000X, more than five times the continuous streaming speed of the DLP9000",
   "detail": null,
   "source": "https://www.ti.com/about-ti/newsroom/news-releases/2015/2015-10-07-ti-introduces-its-highest-speed-and-resolution-dlp--chipset-for-3d-printing-and-lithography-applications.html"
  },
  {
   "date": "Jan 2022",
   "title": "A DLP Pico chipset makes desktop DLP printers possible under 500 dollars, with Anycubic among the first",
   "detail": null,
   "source": "https://www.voxelmatters.com/new-ti-dlp-pico-chipset-makes-dlp-3d-printing-more-affordable/"
  }
 ]
}