His career was forged in failure at Texas Instruments (TI), where he went to work in 1978 after earning a finance degree from the University of Texas.

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One concerned the formation of the Heterogeneous System Architecture (HSA) Foundation, initial founders of which include AMD, ARM Holdings, Imagination Technologies, MediaTek, and Texas Instruments (TI).

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ARM, Freescale Semiconductor, IBM, Samsung, ST-Ericsson and Texas Instruments Incorporated (TI), today announced the formation of Linaro, a not-for-profit open source software engineering company dedicated to enhancing open source innovation for the next wave of always-connected, always-on computing.

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Texas Instruments when Jack made TI aware of his private hobby did not want to know as they were making millions out of manufacturing valves.

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