Company Press Release:
Texas Instruments
invites IISc as one of Top 4 Leadership Universities in the world
First Leadership
University relationship outside of U.S.
Bangalore, India, April
2, 2007 – Texas Instruments, a leader in the semiconductor industry,
today announced Indian Institute of Science (IISc) as one of the top four
Leadership Universities in the world. Under this program, IISc will
join TI’s premier research network as the first university outside of US.
This partnership furthers TI’s commitment to education and advanced research
in India.
TI selected IISc as a leadership
university based on IISc’s innovation and research leadership, in-depth
knowledge of technology, deep understanding of industry needs, focus on
future technologies like wireless, consumer, medical, and industrial applications.
As a Leadership University, IISc will receive a seed funding of $400,000
over five years, which is an extension of existing funding already received
by IISc. It will also gain enhanced access to TI’s teams worldwide,
and an opportunity to work with TI’s other Leadership Universities on future
TI funded programs. The funding will be used to support research
programs for industry specific applications as well as curriculum development
in DSP, analog and mixed signal systems.
While speaking to
the students at IISc in India, Rich K Templeton, TI president and CEO said,
“The higher education in engineering and science you get here provides
you with critical skills and also enables you to transform the lives of
millions through invention and discovery. Our goal in joining
with IISc through the Leadership University program is to enable engineers
to use electronics innovation to enrich lives.” He further highlighted
that, “India is recognized for its progress and needs similar higher education
research programs to sustain intellectual credibility and advancement of
the industry. TI is committed to the long term goals of the
industry.”
Professor P Balaram, Director
IISc, welcomed Rich Templeton and said “It is a pleasure to partner with
TI as a Leadership University. We look forward to sharing our ideas
through collaborative research and to develop innovative technologies under
this programme”.
IISc is a post graduate
institute known to produce excellent post-graduates and PhDs. TI
has been working with IISc for over 10 years. Recognition as a lead
University reflects TI’s strategic and long term commitment to advance
technology and grow the benefits of electronics innovation in India.
As the first MNC to recognize
India’s talent in 1985, TI’s India operations today are an integral part
of global engineering and sales teams working on numerous product areas
across the country. Under its India university program, TI established
one of the first of its 550 DSP Labs in India at IISc in 1996.
It is also launching an Analog university program for engineering institutions
throughout India. Focus on both DSP and Analog competencies will
drive a system level approach to technical education.
Making math and science
education more accessible to people around the world has been a TI commitment
for more than 60 years, and the company’s university partnerships have
touched thousands of students in every region across the globe.
About Texas Instruments:
Texas Instruments Incorporated provides innovative
DSP and analog technologies to meet our customers’ real world signal processing
requirements. In addition to Semiconductor, the company includes
the Education Technology business. TI is headquartered in Dallas,
Texas, and has manufacturing, design or sales operations in more than 25
countries.
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