Dallas is the worldwide headquarters for Texas Instruments Incorporated, the world’s leading provider of digital signal processing and analog solutions.

TI currently occupies about 9.2 million square feet of manufacturing and office space in Texas including sites in Austin, Dallas, Plano, Sherman and Stafford.

Revolutionary inventions from TI’s laboratories include the integrated circuit, the hand-held calculator, the single-chip microprocessor, single-chip digital signal processor and digital imaging device.

TI’s Texas employment is about 12,700 people. This is roughly 41 percent of TI’s worldwide work force.

TI’s annual Texas payroll was $1253 million in 2006.

TI paid $88 million in state and local taxes, including $33.6 million in school taxes, in 2006 and spent about $105 million with local utility companies in 2006.

TI’s Texas facilities include six wafer fabrication facilities, advanced research and development centers and over twelve million square feet of operating space - all necessary for the creation of advanced semiconductor products used in everyday electronics.

TI was the incubator for what is now called the Telecom Corridor® in North Texas. The company has spawned dozens of high-tech entities currently operating in Texas.

TI and its foundation annually contribute millions of dollars to Texas educational and charitable organizations, which include minority and women business development opportunities, university relationships, health and human services and other business and civic organizations.

TI and the TI Foundation are leading creators of programs to improve education at all levels, especially programs and efforts to increase math and science skills in Texas students.

TI’s products are allowing creations, such as bionic arms and thought-activated wheelchairs, that make the world a better place.

TI actively supports Baylor University, Collin County Community College District, Dallas County Community College District, Paul Quinn College, Prairie View A&M, Rice University, Southern Methodist University, Tarrant County Community College District, Texas A&M University, Texas State Technical College, Texas Tech University, Texas Women's University, University of Houston, University of North Texas, University of Texas at Arlington, University of Texas at Austin, University of Texas at Dallas, University of Texas at El Paso and University of Texas Pan American.