Message-ID: <25366887.1075851534575.JavaMail.evans@thyme> Date: Fri, 19 Oct 2001 04:05:52 -0700 (PDT) From: morning19@alerts.equityalert.com To: alewis@ect.enron.com Subject: Your News Alert for TXN Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ANSI_X3.4-1968 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable X-From: "Equity Alert Center" @ENRON X-To: Andrew Lewis X-cc: X-bcc: X-Folder: \ALEWIS (Non-Privileged)\Deleted Items X-Origin: LEWIS-A X-FileName: ALEWIS (Non-Privileged).pst =09[IMAGE]=09 =09[IMAGE]=09[IMAGE]=09 [IMAGE] [IMAGE] [IMAGE] [IMAGE] Upgrades [IMAGE] DownGrades= [IMAGE] Coverage Initiated [IMAGE] Coverage Reiterated [IMAGE] Stock Sp= lits [IMAGE] Buybacks [IMAGE] Dividends [IMAGE] Pos Pre-Announce [IMAGE= ] Neg Pre-Announce [IMAGE] Pos Surprises [IMAGE] Neg Surprises [IMAGE] E= arnings Revisions [IMAGE] IPO - Lockup Periods [IMAGE] IPO - Latest Prici= ng [IMAGE] IPO - Quite Periods [IMAGE] IPO - Postponements [IMAGE] IPO -= Withdrawals [IMAGE] IPO - Latest Filings [IMAGE] [IMAGE] [IMAGE] = [IMAGE] [IMAGE] Unsubscribe [IMAGE] Update my Membership / Profile [IM= AGE] Forgot Username / Password [IMAGE] Add / Edit Alerts [IMAGE] View = My Alerts [IMAGE] [IMAGE] [IMAGE] [IMAGE] [IMAGE] [IMAGE] [IMAGE] = [IMAGE] [IMAGE] =09 As requested, your News Alert for TXN follows from Eq= uityAlert.com. TI Adds Several New Design-Wins, Providing High-Performa= nce, Programmable DSPs To an Ever-Growing Array of Internet Audio Products= =1DNine of the Top 10 Consumer Electronics Manufacturers Choose TI's DSPs F= or Internet Audio Devices DALLAS, Oct 19, 2001 /PRNewswire via COMTEX/ --= Continuing to demonstrate its strong support of the Internet audio industr= y, Texas Instruments Incorporated (NYSE: TXN) (TI) added new products from = GGKaiser and SONICblue(TM) Incorporated, as well as additional products fro= m current customers Compaq Computer Corporation and e.Digital to its extens= ive list of design-wins. Throughout 2001, TI has established strong relatio= nships and demonstrated the ability to listen to our customers resulting in= increased market share over the competition. TI's award-winning DSP techno= logy has been designed into more than 80 Internet audio devices, including = products from nine of the top 10 consumer electronics manufacturers. (See h= ttp://www.ti.com/sc/internetaudio .) "TI has its finger on the pulse of t= he digital music industry, with more than 90 percent of the top consumer el= ectronics manufacturers using our technology," said Chris Schairbaum, world= wide marketing manager of Internet Audio at TI. "As we approach the holiday= s, TI expects to see an increase in consumer demand for upgradeable, featur= e-rich devices offering the flexibility to adjust to the ever-changing audi= o market." TI is one of the leading suppliers of chips in the Internet au= dio market, having shipped three million Internet audio DSPs as of June 200= 1, more than any other programmable semiconductor manufacturer. TI provides= the engine for Internet audio-enabled products from leading consumer elect= ronics manufacturers due to its flexible, high performance and low power sy= stem solution. TI's Internet Audio business garnered several new design-win= s and industry relationships in the third quarter, including: -- August = -- SONICblue selected TI's industry-leading programmable DSP techn= ology to power its new Rio(R) One digital audio player. Leveraging= the performance headroom and programmability of TI's DSP, the Rio= One can play multiple audio formats, is upgradeable to support fu= ture formats and costs less than $100. TI's low-power DSP also en= ables the Rio One to play up to 10 hours of music on one AA batter= y. -- September -- TI was the first semiconductor company to license = Thomson's new mp3PRO digital audio format. Using TI's in= dustry-leading programmable DSPs, manufacturers will now have the = ability to update Internet audio devices to support the mp3PRO for= mat. Backwards compatible with mp3, the new mp3PRO offers dramati= cally improved compression rates and sound quality. -- September -- U= sing TI's TMS320C54x DSP, GGKaiser has developed the "MP-Kaiser," = a multi-format digital audio player that features wireless radio f= requency technology allowing connectivity between the player and c= ompatible wireless headphones, car audio and home audio. The MP-K= aiser features real-time mp3 encoding, FM-tuner and voice-recorder= . -- September -- In addition to the iPAQ Music Center that was annou= nced in June, Compaq Computer Corporation has incorporated TI DSPs= into its iPAQ Personal CD Player PCD-1. The PCD-1 plays CD-R, CD= -RW and conventional CDs and supports mp3 and Windows Media Audio = (WMA) files. The PCD-1 features an FM-tuner, connectivity to home= stereo systems and an infrared remote control for ease of use. W= ith 650 MB of memory, listeners can enjoy up to 300 songs or 20 ho= urs of audio from a single disk. -- September -- e.Digital i= ncorporated the TI DSP into the first publicly available digital a= udio reference design that supports DataPlay technology, enabling = manufacturers to easily incorporate this emerging storage medium. = DataPlay digital media is a universal solution, about the size of= a quarter, that is designed to play and record all forms of digit= al content across all digital devices and platforms, including mus= ic, images, software, eBooks, games, video and more. -- Octo= ber -- e.Digital has also utilized TI's DSP technology into its ne= w digital audio and music player/recorder, which supports IBM's Mi= crodrive removable hard disk media. The new Microdrive technology = allows up to 1 GB of storage or 20 hours of music. Based on e.Di= gital's new MicroOS 2.0 operating system, the ultra-portable produ= ct features VoiceNav, e.Digital's natural speech-recognition user = interface for performing navigation and playback functions. Just i= n time for the holidays, consumers will have easy voice access to = an extensive portable audio or music library. About TI Texas Instruments= Incorporated is the world leader in digital signal processing and analog t= echnologies, the semiconductor engines of the Internet age. The company's b= usinesses also include sensors and controls, and educational and productivi= ty solutions. TI is headquartered in Dallas, Texas, and has manufacturing o= r sales operations in more than 25 countries. Texas Instruments is traded= on the New York Stock Exchange under the symbol TXN. The company's web sit= e is www.ti.com . Safe Harbor Statement: Statements contained in this pre= ss release regarding product performance, growth in the internet audio mark= et, and other statements of management's beliefs, goals and expectations ma= y be considered "forward-looking statements" as that term is defined in the= Private Securities Litigation Reform Act of 1995, and are subject to risks= and uncertainties that could cause actual results to differ materially fro= m those expressed or implied by these statements. Please refer to TI's most= recent Form 10-K for more information on the risks and uncertainties that = could materially affect future results of operations. TI disclaims any inte= ntion or obligation to update any forward-looking statements as a result of= developments occurring after the date of this press release. Trademarks:= All trademarks are either registered trademarks or trademarks of their r= espective holders. 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