| 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
For more information about 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
2009 TI Revenue:

2009 Capital Expenditures:
2009 R&D:
Patents:
- TI patents issued worldwide cumulatively: more than
37,000
- 2009 TI patents issued worldwide: more than 1,100
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 26,600 worldwide
Regional Employee Population:
Approximately –
- 12,500 in The Americas
- 9,900 in Texas
- 8,800 in North Texas
- 8,100 in Dallas area
- 9,900 in Asia
- 1,700 in Japan
- 2,500 in Europe
Selected Recent Awards:
- Fortune’s “Most Admired Companies” – 2009 for the 6th consecutive 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” – 2009 for the 14th consecutive year
- Newsweek’s “Green Ranking of America’s 500 largest corporations” – 2009 (TI ranked 23rd in this first annual ranking)
- Corporate Responsibility Officer magazine's “100 Best Corporate Citizens” – 2009 for the 7th year
- Ethisphere Magazine’s “World’s Most Ethical Companies” – 2009 for the 3rd consecutive year
- National Business Group on Health's “Best Employers for Healthy Lifestyles” – 2009 for the 5th year
Did You Know . . .
- TI was the first semiconductor company to go global.
- TI’s analog chips are used in electronics ranging from portable ultrasound equipment to set-top boxes, from eBooks to computer servers, and from robotics to LED streetlights.
- 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 was the first semiconductor company to earn certification from the U.S. Green Building Council for constructing environmentally responsible manufacturing facilities.
TI Stock:
- Ticker is TXN
- Trades on the New York Stock Exchange
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