Jeff Maroney

CTO for Power, Texas Instruments · 1 appearance on the record.

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Jeff Morroni is the Chief Technology Officer for power at Texas Instruments. He specializes in semiconductor development, manufacturing innovation, and the applications of TI's semiconductor technologies.

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4 supported 0 partly supported 1 contradicted 1 not checkable as stated how the 6 claims stand · each chip opens the sources

6 assertions · 1 opinion · 1 disclosure · every statement was checked. The predictions and assertions are the 6 claims: statements the public record can support or contradict. 5 are resolved, and 1 names no date, number or outcome precise enough to check. Everything else (opinions, insights, what ifs, disclosures) can never be settled by the record, so it carries no assessment.

The record, in short

What the tape says about how Jeff argues and how the claims held up. Everything they said, and everything said about them, is in the tabs below.

Their most notable supported claim

Assertion Supported
Maroney: COVID Chip Crunch Was Driven by Foundational Chips
“A lot of that supply chain challenge actually came from foundational chips. Chips like the chips that are built in this factory that TI built.”
Jeff Maroney Dec 23, 2025 ▶ 2:50 How Texas Instruments Builds Foundational Semiconductors and What They Enable

Their most notable contradicted claim

Assertion Contradicted
Maroney: Global energy consumption growth rate is at an all-time high
“If you look at the global energy consumption, it's actually increasing at a rate higher than it ever has historically in, let's say, even the last year.”
Jeff Maroney Dec 23, 2025 ▶ 17:20 How Texas Instruments Builds Foundational Semiconductors and What They Enable

Expressed certainty vs assessment result

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weighted support: a fully supported claim counts one, a partly supported claim counts half. Each filled bar is clickable and opens exactly those claims; "none yet" means nothing said at that certainty level has resolved yet

How they sound: not measured why? →

We measure speaking style by listening to the audio itself, and a fair number needs at least 2,000 words from one person on tape we have measured. There is too little of Jeff Maroney on measured tape to publish a rate. This says nothing about how they speak.

Everything Jeff Maroney said on Big Technology that made the record, most notable first. Filter by type, assessment or year in the ledger →

Assertion Supported
Maroney: COVID Chip Crunch Was Driven by Foundational Chips
“A lot of that supply chain challenge actually came from foundational chips. Chips like the chips that are built in this factory that TI built.”
Jeff Maroney Dec 23, 2025 ▶ 2:50 How Texas Instruments Builds Foundational Semiconductors and What They Enable
Opinion
Maroney: Power is the single biggest challenge facing AI
“I would say that the single biggest challenge that we face when it comes to the trend in AI is power.”
Jeff Maroney Dec 23, 2025 ▶ 12:14 How Texas Instruments Builds Foundational Semiconductors and What They Enable
Assertion Supported
Single AI Processor Consumes Power Equal To An Entire US Household
“So one of these chips, these processors, it can take somewhere on the average of two kilowatts, which is not an uncommon amount of average power for a household, a full house in the U S to take.”
Jeff Maroney Dec 23, 2025 ▶ 13:01 How Texas Instruments Builds Foundational Semiconductors and What They Enable
Assertion Contradicted
Maroney: Global energy consumption growth rate is at an all-time high
“If you look at the global energy consumption, it's actually increasing at a rate higher than it ever has historically in, let's say, even the last year.”
Jeff Maroney Dec 23, 2025 ▶ 17:20 How Texas Instruments Builds Foundational Semiconductors and What They Enable
Disclosure
TI Avoids R&D Handoffs By Moving Entire Research Teams To Productization
“At that point, that same core team moves full time out of Kilby and into the to the productization teams that are responsible for building the products and driving it to high volume. And so now there's complete ownership. There's no baton passing. It's one tea…”
Jeff Maroney Dec 23, 2025 ▶ 25:19 How Texas Instruments Builds Foundational Semiconductors and What They Enable
Assertion Supported
Maroney: Semiconductors Are Cheaper Today Than 20 Years Ago
“Semiconductors now are cheaper than they were 20 years ago.”
Jeff Maroney Dec 23, 2025 ▶ 2:06 How Texas Instruments Builds Foundational Semiconductors and What They Enable
Assertion Not checkable as stated
TI Rewrote Tracking Software After Chip Density Exceeded System Limits
“We ended up building a chip small enough that it broke one of our systems. It was a Y-IIK moment. You know, you go from 1999 to 2000, and the system wasn't designed to handle as many chips as we could fit in this. And so we had to actually redo the software so…”
Jeff Maroney Dec 23, 2025 ▶ 5:21 How Texas Instruments Builds Foundational Semiconductors and What They Enable
Assertion Supported
TI's Maroney: Modern Cars Often Contain Over 3,000 Semiconductor Chips
“I think in today's cars, depends, of course, on your model, but it's not uncommon to see over 3000 chips in a car. Most of them are foundational technology chips.”
Jeff Maroney Dec 23, 2025 ▶ 8:01 How Texas Instruments Builds Foundational Semiconductors and What They Enable

Appearances (1)

EpisodeDateSpeaking time
How Texas Instruments Builds Foundational Semiconductors and What They Enable Dec 23, 2025 22m
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