| About TI:
Texas Instruments
Incorporated provides innovative semiconductor
technologies to help our customers create the
world’s most advanced electronics. Our analog,
embedded processing and wireless technologies
permeate daily life in many different ways, from
digital communications and entertainment to medical
services, automotive systems and wide-ranging
applications in between.
From TI’s earliest days, the objective has been
to use the company’s unique technical skills to
fundamentally change markets and create entirely
new ones. A constant thread throughout our history
has been our use of progressively more complex
real-time signal processing technology – with
advances ranging from the incremental to the revolutionary
– to literally and repeatedly change the world.
Corporate Headquarters:
Texas Instruments
12500 TI Boulevard
Dallas, Texas 75243
Executive Officers:
Rich Templeton
Chairman, president and
chief executive officer
More information on TI’s other executive officers
at www.ti.com/execofficers
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History:
- Founded in 1930 as a geophysical exploration company
that used seismic
signal processing technology to search for oil
- Adopted the name Texas Instruments Incorporated
in 1951
- Entered the semiconductor market with its 1954 introduction
of the first
commercial silicon transistor
2008 TI Revenue:

2008 Capital Expenditures:
2008 R&D:
Patents:
- TI patents issued worldwide cumulatively: more than
36,000
- 2008 TI patents issued worldwide: more than 1,200
Fortune 500 Ranking*:
- 215
*2009 ranking based on 2008 revenue
Global Presence:
Manufacturing, design or sales operations in more than
30 countries
Employee Population:
- Approximately 26,300 worldwide
Regional Employee Population:
Approximately –
- 12,600 in The Americas
- 10,000 in Texas
- 8,900 in North Texas
- 8,100 in Dallas area
- 8,800 in Asia
- 2,200 in Japan
- 2,700 in Europe
Selected Recent Awards:
- Fortune’s “Most Admired Companies” – 2009 for the 6th consecutive year
- Fortune’s “100 Best Companies to Work For
in America” – 2009 for the 10th year
- National Association for Female Executives – one of the top U.S. companies for female executives – 2009 for the 4th consecutive year
- Working Mother’s “100 Best Companies for
Working Mothers” – 2008 for the 13th consecutive year
- Corporate Responsibility Officer magazine's “100 Best Corporate Citizens” – 2009 for the 7th year
- Ethisphere Magazine’s “World’s Most Ethical Companies” – 2008 for the 2nd consecutive year
- KLD Research & Analytics, Member Company of Domini 400 SocialSM Index, measuring top environmental, social and governance performers – 2008 for the 11th consecutive year
Did You Know . . .
- TI has 25 years experience in DSP and 50
years experience in analog.
- TI was the first semiconductor company to go global.
- 75% of all notebook PCs use TI for power management
and data storage.
- More than 200 mobile phone models use TI's OMAP™ chips for mobile computing and rich multimedia experiences.
- TI’s Jack Kilby invented the integrated circuit
in 1958.
- TI invented the handheld calculator in 1967.
- Use of graphing calculators leads to significantly
better student attitudes toward math.
- TI’s DLP Cinema® technology produces 35 trillion
colors on a screen.
- TI has won two Emmy Awards for DLP® technology.
TI Stock:
- Ticker is TXN
- Trades on the New York Stock Exchange
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