The Dataquest rankings are based on 1999 company revenue. Dataquest also noted that analog has become an integral part of the high-growth Internet and multimedia era. They also translate signals for more efficient processing by digital signal processors. For example, analog products translate human voice signals into digital signals for communications via wireless phones and back again at the ear of the receiver. Without analog products, many DSP applications, including digital phones, would be slower, less secure or not possible at all.
Every electronic system requires a power management device.
Wireless - TI provides semiconductor content for more than 60 percent of the digital cellular phone market. TI provides all of these four major building blocks, with the first three being analog. TI enabled more than eight million personal computers with 1394 in 1999. In 2000, TI continues to create new markets and new products that meet consumer demand in the emerging interactive home environment. Texas Instruments Incorporated.