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	            <title><![CDATA[A DSP by Any Other Name? : TI & DSP]]></title>
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	            	            Kenton,

TI has had a split personality on the DSP vs MCU debate for more than thirty years. Some of that has been based on the fact that TI lost the 4-bit wars (TMS1000 vs Intel and Motorola). Well, it was more like TI ceded the 4-bit arena and then could never catch up in 8-bits. Some of us older geezers will recall the TMS9940 16-bit MCU of the 70s that was going to win the world over - and caused TI to abandon investing in 8-bit products.

So, marketing folks (of which I was one) split the MCU operation and DSP product lines so that the DSPs were winner inside the company and out.

Still, I think that TI is still institutionally smarting a little from those long ago losses.	            ]]></description>
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                <pubDate>Wed, 07 Oct 2009 20:03:42 -0500</pubDate>
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