Texas Instruments
12500 TI Blvd, Dallas, TX, 75243, United States
Overview
Texas Instruments is a Dallas, Texas-based company that specializes in developing and commercializing semiconductor and computer technology for cellular handsets, digital signal processors, and analog semiconductors. Other focus areas include chips for emerging medical electronics, energy (including Low Power/No Power, LED Lighting, & Solar Technologies), RFID, and telecommunications infrastructure.
- Total investments
- 3
- Lead investments
- 0
- Investments · 12mo
- 0
- Active investors
- 0
Sector focus
- Computer
- DSP
- Semiconductor
Investment portfolio
- Calxeda
Participated · Equity · Nov 2010
Calxeda designs ultra-low-power server chips built on ARM processors as an alternative to Intel x86 chips. Its core product targets micro-servers and data-center deployments where power efficiency and lower cost are priorities. The company is working with HP to develop new micro-server technology and says it will have a production server ready by the end of the year. Calxeda faces competition from firms including Applied Micro, Cavium, Marvell, Nvidia, and Samsung. Power efficiency and total cost of ownership are central to its value proposition as data-center owners seek performance at lower power. The company is based in Austin and has accumulated significant external investment to support product development. Calxeda designs ultra-low-power processors, similar to those used in mobile phones, aimed at reducing the energy and space requirements of data centers. The company rebranded from Smooth-Stone to Calxeda, launched a new website, and moved into a new corporate headquarters in Austin, Texas. It expanded its executive team with three vice presidents — Karl Freund, Bob Baughman and Steve Beatty — who joined from IBM, Polycom and Freescale. Founded in January 2008, Calxeda raised a $48 million investment in August from a syndicate of venture capital firms and semiconductor companies. Investors in that round included ARM, Advanced Technology Investment Company (ATIC), Battery Ventures, Flybridge Capital Partners, Highland Capital Partners and Texas Instruments. The funding positions the company to continue developing its low-power server processors and commercializing energy-efficient data center solutions.
- Smooth-Stone
Participated · Equity · Aug 2010
Smooth-Stone develops a new generation of high-performance, low-power chips intended for data-center use. The company is based in Austin, Texas. It raised $48M in a syndicated investment to complete development and pursue market delivery of its processors. The chips aim to increase data-center compute density while significantly reducing power, space and cooling requirements. The funding comes from a mix of venture capital firms and semiconductor industry partners. As part of the financing, several investors joined the company’s board, strengthening industry ties ahead of commercialization.
- Cymbet
Participated · Equity · Jan 2010
Cymbet Corporation develops EnerChip, an eco-friendly, rechargeable solid-state energy device that supplies distributed power for embedded systems. EnerChip targets integrated circuits and enables new product concepts across medical devices, sensors, RFID tags, industrial control, communications and portable electronics. The company is based in Elk River, MN and has been responding to rising customer demand for its product. Cymbet completed the final phase of its third round of private equity financing, raising $31M. Proceeds from the financing will be used to expand global sales and marketing initiatives and to add manufacturing capacity for EnerChip.
Team
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