| About TI: Texas Instruments
Incorporated provides innovative DSP and analog
technologies to help our customers create the
world’s most advanced electronics. Our real-time
signal processing technology permeates daily life
in many different ways, from digital communications
and entertainment to medical services, automotive
systems and wide-ranging applications in between.
From the company’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 signal processing technology – with
advances ranging from the incremental to the revolutionary
– to literally and repeatedly change the world.
The company’s core business today is Semiconductor,
accounting for 96 percent of our revenue, while
our Education Technology business, representing
4 percent of our revenue, designs and develops
calculator and technology solutions that help
educators and students in their math and science
learning.
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
2007 TI Revenue*:
*Continuing operations, excludes TI’s divested former Sensors & Controls business.
2007 Capital Expenditures:
2007 R&D:
Patents:
- TI patents issued worldwide cumulatively: more than
35,000
- 2007 TI patents issued worldwide: more than 1,300
Fortune 500 Ranking*:
- 185
*2008 ranking based on 2007 revenue
Global Presence:
Manufacturing, design or sales operations in more than
25 countries
Employee Population:
- Approximately 30,300 worldwide
Regional Employee Population:
Approximately –
- 15,000 in The Americas
- 11,900 in Texas
- 10,600 in North Texas
- 9,800 in Dallas area
- 9,700 in Asia
- 2,400 in Japan
- 3,200 in Europe
Selected Recent Awards:
- Fortune’s “Most Admired Companies” – ranked
No. 1 in the semiconductor industry – 2008 for the
5th consecutive year
- Fortune’s “100 Best Companies to Work For
in America” – 2008 for the 9th year
- Working Mother’s “100 Best Companies for
Working Mothers” – 2007 for the 12th consecutive year
- Member of Dow Jones Sustainability World Indexes,
chosen for industry leadership in corporate sustainability
– 2007 for the 2nd consecutive year
- Corporate Responsibility Officer’s “100
Best Corporate Citizens” – 2007 for the 4th consecutive
year
Did You Know . . .
- TI has gained market share in analog and in DSP
in each of the last six years.
- TI has 25 years experience in DSP and nearly 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 half the cell phones sold worldwide use
TI technology.
- 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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