Las Vegas – Texas Instruments’ DLP Cinema unit on Tuesday introduced its new .98 DLP Cinema chip, which the company said is housed in a smaller, more efficient cabinet and outputs up to 18,000 lumens. TI added that its DLP Cinema projectors saw a 350% increase in global deployments in 2006, a year in which the 18 top-grossing films were released in digital format and shown on its projectors.