Even our terminology is becoming obsolete. Last February, TI unveiled a DSP that can process 9 billion instructions per second. Within 10 years, our DSPs will be processing 3 trillion instructions per second. The second element here is encryption. Fortunately, regulators have realized that people demand privacy in e-commerce and their personal devices.
New regulations represent a significant and long overdue shift in U.S. policy.
However, the new regulations still require technical reviews that often force companies to deal with government regulators before we can work with customers who want to use our encryption products. Given technology's extraordinary pace of change, we must ensure that encryption regulations stay up to date. Policies must be continually reviewed so they do not become obstacles to technical advancements and U.S. competitiveness. If we can get the right public policies in place and keep them up to date, then I believe the Internet Age will move the world forward in a positive direction. Like the tourist passing the National Archive, we ain't seen nothing yet.