Product category: Microprocessors, Microcontrollers and DSPs
News Release from: Texas Instruments (April 2001-March 2006) | Subject: TMS320C6416
Edited by the Electronicstalk Editorial Team on 2 April 2003
DSP chip recognised as world record
Texas Instruments has made it into the Guinness World Records book with the world's fastest DSP
A member of the TMS320C64x generation of high-performance DSP chips, the new TMS320C6416 DSP has a clock rate of 720MHz. 'It's been 30 years since Martin Cooper made his historic first cellular phone call to his rival at Bell Labs. Five years later, when Texas Instruments introduced the 'Speak and Spell', they paved the way for single-chip digital signal processors', said David Hawksett, Head of Science and Technology at Guinness World Records.
This article was originally published on Electronicstalk on 2 April 2003 at 8.00am (UK)
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'Today, this technology is everywhere, and people can now send live video, as well as voice, over a cellular phone.
Considering the current pace of research in this field, this is not a record I expect to remain static for long'.
'DSP performance leadership recognition from Guinness World Records is a feather in our cap since the Guinness Book of World Records is a modern cultural icon and a household name', said Leon Adams, Worldwide DSP Product Marketing Manager, Texas Instruments.
'It's a great honour, and we humbly accept it with one request: enter it in pencil, because we plan on breaking our own record again and again'.
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