Some interesting facts about Ti, DSP chips and technology in general.
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About 154 million digital wireless phones were sold in 1998 - and TI DSPs powered most of those phones.
Right now, 383,000 digital cellular phones are sold every day
Right now, 166 million people have pager services
Right now, 40% of home Web users are between the ages of 12 and 17
Right now, there are 18,900 new Internet users every day
Right now, people use products containing a DSP as often as every 10 minutes
Right now, worldwide DSP sales average $9.3 million per day
Right now, analog sales average $60.2 million per day
Right now, purchases over the Internet are increasing at the rate of $10 billion per year
Right now, a typical hard disk drive has a capacity of 3 to 5 Gbytes… in 5 years they will have 10 times the capacity
Right now, demand for networked products is growing at a rate of 20% annually
Right now, 9,800 digital still cameras are shipped each day; in four years, it will be 51,780 per day
Right now, a 911 operator is having trouble locating a caller in distress. Right now, engineers are working to put GPS systems in every digital cell phone
Right now, digital cellular phone shipments have increased 64% over last year
Right now, over half the world's population has never made a phone call
Right now, there are 104 million PCs connected to the Internet… within 4 years that number will triple
Today, 3,552 high-speed modems have been shipped…the next generation of modems will be 100 times faster than those
Right now, Internet users average 5-1/2 hours online per week
Right now, there are more than 320 million Web pages
The European Internet market grew 60% in 1998
Today, 21, 600 Europeans connected to the Internet for the first time
Today, 3, 000 people have made the decision to telecommute to work
Right now, wherever there is a DSP you will find analog products as well
Today, $9.3 million of DSPs and $60 million of analog products have been sold
Today, 123,552 pagers have been shipped
Today, more than $10.5 million worth goods have been purchased over the Internet
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