TEXAS INSTRUMENTS RESEARCHERS OUTLINE PATHS TO REDUCE CHIP POWER CONSUMPTION, INCREASE PERFORMANCE

Technical Disclosures Present New Options for Chip Scaling

DALLAS (June 15, 2004) - Texas Instruments Incorporated announced its semiconductor research teams have developed cost effective techniques to dramatically lower chip power consumption and a new approach to increase overall performance. TI's new power management technologies can reduce leakage power from idle transistors by a factor of 1000, while unique strained silicon techniques can increase transistor performance by 35 percent. The developments are being presented in two technical papers at the respected Symposium on VLSI Technology this week in Honolulu, Hawaii.