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Texas Instruments Buying National Semiconductor
By KERA News & Wire Services
April 4, 2011
Dallas, TX – Texas Instruments says it is buying fellow chip-maker National Semiconductor for $6.5 billion in cash in a move to expand its share of the market for analog chips, which are used in a wide range of electronics.

 

TI says vision sharpened in R&D cuts
By VICTOR GODINEZ / The Dallas Morning News
February 7, 2010
Texas Instruments Inc., a legendary font of innovation, cut its budget for research and development by almost half a billion dollars in 2009.
 

The Chip That Jack Built
A short film from KERA profiling Nobel Prize Winner Jack Kilby, the Texas Instruments engineer who co-invented the integrated circuit.
 

To See Where Tech Is Headed, Watch TI
BusinessWeek Online
November 6, 2006
Intel (INTC ) is the premier chipmaker, but there's a better bellwether for the tech industry's fortunes: Texas Instruments (TXN ). Although the Dallas-based company stopped making PCs long ago, its chips are fast becoming the workhorse for key industries in the Digital Age.

It is not easy to beat Intel
By DAMON DARLIN / The New York Times
Published: July 9, 2006
It is not easy to beat Intel if you are running a company that many analysts and investors have written off as moribund and out of touch. It is not easy to beat Intel if you are running a moribund company that loses its chief executive to a heart attack just as he embarks on a risky strategy. But Texas Instruments beat Intel. Twice.

After 75 Years of Technology Leadership and Community Support, TI Continues to Make a Positive Difference
DALLAS, May 16, 2005 /PRNewswire/ -- As Texas Instruments (NYSE: TXN) celebrates its 75th anniversary today, the company is not only commemorating three-quarters of a century of technology leadership, it also is honoring its legacy of support for education and community service.

Ingenuity aided petroleum hunt


Texas Instruments didn't start out under that name when Eugene McDermott and John Clarence "Doc" Karcher launched the company in early 1930 and incorporated it on May 16, 1930.

Texas Instruments: Still glowing


Texas Instruments Inc. has lasted a long time because it has never stayed the same company.

Innovative products spelled success


TI did more than enable smart bombs and oil discovery. It also designed and built products for smart kids and educational discovery, including one device so clever that E.T. used it to phone home.

Technology gave military an edge


The day after Mr. McDermott and his other partners acquired GSI from Coronado, Japan attacked the United States at Pearl Harbor. The same year, the company began its long association with defense work.

'Once a TI-er, always a TI-er'


Max Post had packed up his office and was headed for the door on the last day of his 39-year career at Texas Instruments Inc.
 

 
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