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| REPORT OF ERNST & YOUNG LLP, INDEPENDENT AUDITORS | |||||
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The Board of Directors Texas Instruments Incorporated We have audited the accompanying consolidated balance sheets of Texas Instruments Incorporated and subsidiaries (the Company) at December 31, 1997 and 1996, and the related consolidated statements of income, stockholders' equity, and cash flows for each of the three years in the period ended December 31, 1997. These financial statements are the responsibility of the Company's management. Our responsibility is to express an opinion on these financial statements based on our audits. We conducted our audits in accordance with generally accepted auditing standards. Those standards require that we plan and perform the audit to obtain reasonable assurance about whether the financial statements are free of material misstatement. An audit includes examining, on a test basis, evidence supporting the amounts and disclosures in the financial statements. An audit also includes assessing the accounting principles used and significant estimates made by management, as well as evaluating the overall financial statement presentation. We believe that our audits provide a reasonable basis for our opinion. In our opinion, the consolidated financial statements referred to above present fairly, in all material respects, the financial position of Texas Instruments Incorporated and subsidiaries at December 31, 1997 and 1996, and the results of its operations and cash flows for each of the three years in the period ended December 31, 1997, in conformity with generally accepted accounting principles. Ernst & Young LLP
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