`Father' of DLP Technology Honored by SPIE.

Business/Technology Editors

DALLAS--(BUSINESS WIRE)--March 26, 2002

"A rare privilege......and one for which I am very grateful"

Texas Instruments (TI) (NYSE: TXN) today announced that Dr. Larry Hornbeck had been elected SPIE Fellow for 2002. SPIE is the International Society for Optical Engineering, and the award will be made at the 47th Annual Meeting held at the International Symposium on Optical Science & Technology, July 7-11 in Seattle, WA. The award was made for Dr. Hornbeck's lifetime achievements in digital projection display technology and MOEMS (micro-opto electromechanical systems) architecture and process development.

"I am proud and honored to receive this highly prestigious award, and to be joining such exalted company," said Dr. Hornbeck who was responsible for the invention of, and many subsequent developments in, the Digital Micromirror Device, the optical semiconductor chip which is at the heart of DLP(TM) technology - a projection/display technology which is revolutionizing the worlds of business presentations, home entertainment and movie-going. "To be recognized by one's peers in this way is a rare privilege, and one for which I am very grateful."

SPIE is an international technical society dedicated to fostering engineering, scientific, and commercial applications of optical, photonic, imaging, electronic, and optoelectronic technologies. SPIE is the largest international professional engineering society serving the practicing engineer and scientist in the field of optics and photonics. Fellows are distinguished individuals who have made significant scientific and technical contributions in optics and optoelectronics. In addition, they are recognized for their service to the general optics community and to SPIE in particular.

"We're very pleased that Larry has received this recognition," said John Van Scoter, Vice President and General Manager of TI's DLP(TM) Products division. "His invention has been the basis of an important new business for Texas Instruments, a business which has already enjoyed significant success and which stands poised to enjoy even more. Larry's role in getting us to where we are now cannot be overstated."

Dr. Hornbeck's honors include Germany's Eduard Rhein Foundation Technology Award, England's Rank Prize, the Society for Information Display's Karl Ferdinand Braun Prize, and an Emmy from the Academy of Television Arts & Sciences. He has served on the program committee and as a session chairman for SPIE's Projection Display Conference at the Electronic Imaging Symposium from 1997 through 2002.

DLP(TM) technology delivers the clearest, sharpest, brightest, most accurate images in a broad range of projection and display applications including business projectors, home entertainment projectors, large screen tabletop TVs, video walls and projection systems used in commercial entertainment. DLP Cinema(TM) technology, which delivers large screen images that are superior in many respects to film, is helping to revolutionize the movie industry. Today, TI supplies DLP(TM) subsystems to almost all the world's top projector manufacturers, who then design, manufacture and market projectors based on DLP(TM) technology. Since early 1996, over 1,000,000 DLP(TM) subsystems have been shipped. Over the past four years, DLP(TM) technology-based projectors have consistently won some of the audio-visual industry's most prestigious awards, including, in June 1998, an Emmy Award from the Academy of Television Arts & Sciences.

At the heart of TI's Digital Light Processing(TM) technology is the Digital Micromirror Device optical semiconductor chip. The DMD chip has an array of up to 1,310,000 hinged, microscopic mirrors which operate as optical switches to create a high resolution, full color image. For more information, please visit www.dlp.com.

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