Texas Instruments Incorporated

What does Texas Instruments own?
The company owns its analog and embedded processing product lines, internal 300mm wafer fabs in Texas and Utah, assembly and test facilities worldwide, and the DLP and calculator businesses.

Is Texas Instruments publicly traded?
Yes. It trades on the Nasdaq under ticker TXN and is an S&P 500 component.

Who founded Texas Instruments?
J. Clarence Karcher and Eugene McDermott founded Geophysical Service Inc. in 1930, reorganized as Texas Instruments in 1951.

Where is Texas Instruments headquartered?
The company is headquartered in Dallas, Texas, where it has been based since its founding.

What does Texas Instruments make?
Analog chips for power management and signal processing, embedded processors and microcontrollers, DLP technology, and calculators, a catalog of more than 100,000 products for industrial, automotive, and consumer applications.

Who owns Texas Instruments?
Public shareholders own the company through the Nasdaq listing, with institutional investors holding most shares.

What is TI's biggest product area?
Analog chips, roughly 75 percent of revenue, making it the world's largest analog semiconductor company.

The company began in 1930 as Geophysical Service Inc., founded by J. Clarence Karcher and Eugene McDermott to sell seismic survey services to oil companies. Electronics work during World War II pushed it toward manufacturing, and the company reorganized as Texas Instruments in 1951.

The 1950s made it a semiconductor pioneer. TI developed the first commercial silicon transistor in 1954, and in 1958 employee Jack Kilby demonstrated the integrated circuit, the invention that earned him a Nobel Prize and founded the modern chip industry. TI chips flew on early space missions, and its handheld calculators of the 1970s became consumer icons.

The company pivoted from broad electronics to semiconductors through the 1980s and 1990s, selling defense, memory, and other units while doubling down on analog and digital signal processing. The 2000 acquisition of Unitrode and the 2011 acquisition of National Semiconductor for approximately $6.5 billion cemented analog leadership, bringing the analog catalog to tens of thousands of parts.

Modern strategy under successive CEOs has been manufacturing ownership. The company bought Micron's Lehi, Utah fab in 2021, built Richardson RFAB2, and broke ground on the Sherman mega-site, one of the largest chip investments in US history with planned capacity exceeding $40 billion over decades. Ilan's 2023 ascension continued the capital-intensive roadmap without deviation.

TI's sustainability work is operational: water and energy efficiency in fab operations, chemical and waste management across manufacturing, and responsible minerals sourcing in its supply chain.

The company publishes annual environmental reporting and pursues fab efficiency programs, but holds no consumer-facing certifications. Its disclosure practices are considered solid for a semiconductor manufacturer of its scale.

The strategic environmental claim is structural: analog chips are the control layer for electrification, energy efficiency, and industrial automation, which positions the product catalog inside most sustainability transitions without TI needing to claim green status itself.

TI is a perennial Fortune 500 member and S&P 500 component, and Jack Kilby's 1958 integrated circuit invention, recognized with the 2000 Nobel Prize in Physics, remains the industry's founding milestone.

The company ranks consistently among the world's most admired semiconductor companies on Fortune's lists and is a top-tier dividend-growth holding, with decades of consecutive annual dividend increases.

Its Sherman fab project is among the largest CHIPS Act-backed semiconductor investments in US history.

Export controls: As a major chip supplier, TI operates under evolving US export-control rules on advanced semiconductors to China, a compliance environment that affects its largest international market. Its analog products fall largely below the most restricted categories.

Fab construction impacts: The Sherman mega-site and other fab expansions draw local scrutiny over water use, chemical handling, and construction impacts standard to large semiconductor facilities.

Pricing and inventory cycles: The company periodically faces criticism during shortages for allocation practices and during corrections for inventory correction impacts, standard cyclical friction rather than misconduct.