Moreover, there was a clear and large market for calculators and a limited one for computers and, after all, the customer had commissioned a calculator chip.
The company, which makes products like calculators and chips for cellphones and televisions, said fourth-quarter wireless revenue would remain at third-quarter levels despite growth in other parts of its business, like analog chips.
In short, a protein chip is to a gene chip what a supercomputer is to a calculator, say protein-chip companies.
"You can't forget the past," Thembi said one recent evening, as she considered the gap between classmates who share calculators and potato chips but live different lives.
The company, which also makes calculators and television chips, also said it would raise its dividend by 25percentthethe second such increase this year.
Many of them cut their teeth making and selling HP computers, calculators, printers and chips.
The 901B and the TI-2500 both used the TI TMS0100 family of "calculator-on-a-chip" integrated circuit.
It used Intel's new 8080 microprocessor, which, unlike the logic chips that animated calculators or electronic watches, could be programmed to do all manner of tasks.
Texas Instruments went on to become one of the world's major producers of semiconductor chips, microcomputers, and handheld calculators.
It isn't yet possible to print circuits that are as dense as those in a silicon chip, so a printed calculator would have to be huge, probably several square feet.
