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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
By TERRY MAXON / The Dallas Morning News
09:58 PM CDT on Thursday, May 12, 2005
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
By TERRY MAXON / The Dallas Morning News
11:46 PM CDT on Thursday, May 12, 2005
Texas Instruments Inc. has lasted a long time because it has never stayed the same company.

Innovative products spelled success
By TERRY MAXON / The Dallas Morning News
09:53 PM CDT on Thursday, May 12, 2005
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
By TERRY MAXON / The Dallas Morning News
09:55 PM CDT on Thursday, May 12, 2005
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'
By BOB MOOS / The Dallas Morning News
11:36 AM CST on Saturday, March 26, 2005
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.