A View from C-Level

To say Rich Templeton is focused would be an understatement. The minute he walked out of Union College in 1980 with an engineering degree he walked into TI. Twenty-four years later he's risen to chief executive officer, a position he assumed May 1. In the past 10, as COO, he's worked closely with former CEO Tom Engibous to bring a laser focus ý specifically digital signal processing ý to a once broad-line semiconductor supplier. We sat down with Templeton in Dallas just before he assumed the CEO's slot.

1. Introduction to the interview, Brian Fuller, EET editor in chief[ WMV | QuickTime ]
2. What's the outlook from TI's perspective as the industry starts to pull out of the recession? [ WMV | QuickTime ]
3. What are the lessons of the last three years? How have the dynamics changed? [ WMV | QuickTime ]
4. Is the semiconductor industry in a position to play in the brave new world in which consumer is not just a subset of electronics it IS electronics? [ WMV | QuickTime ]
5. Talk to us about the $64,000 issue: offshoring. [ WMV | QuickTime ]
6. How do you see China playing on a global stage, particularly with the current issues over the VAT tax and wireless specs? [ WMV | QuickTime ]
7. How is the IBM chemicals case affecting the rest of the industry when it comes to worker health? [ WMV | QuickTime ]
8. Given cost escalation do you see consolidation among the SOC players? [ WMV | QuickTime ]
9. On the foundry front, you have rising costs from the pure play boys and competition from China. Talk about that. [ WMV | QuickTime ]
10. How much is TI having to help its customers in the tools area where third-party vendors are falling down on the job? [ WMV | QuickTime ]
11. What's your take on the sustainability of Moore's Law, which is under a microscope these days? [ WMV | QuickTime ]
12. You've just taken over as CEO of TI. You and Tom have overseen have great changes in the past decade here. When we sit down again 10 years from now what will you say about the decade just past? [ WMV | QuickTime ]
13. Are universities altering curricula enough to address the new design process, which is no long microprocessor based but SoC based? [ WMV | QuickTime ]
14. Looking out in the coming few years what are the hot technologies to watch? [ WMV | QuickTime ]