Texas Instruments designs, manufactures, tests, and sells analog and embedded processing semiconductor chips that serve as essential building blocks in electronic systems. With approximately 80,000 products serving over 100,000 customers worldwide, the company's chips manage power, sense and transmit data, and provide core control and processing functions across industrial automation systems, electric vehicles, solar panels, satellites, and robotics platforms. The company's 34,000 employees operate manufacturing and testing facilities that have been producing semiconductors for nearly a century, spanning the evolution from vacuum tubes to transistors to modern integrated circuits.
The company's technical focus spans analog integrated circuits, embedded processing, power management, sensing interfaces, and data transmission - the fundamental building blocks that enable industrial robots to execute motion control sequences, process sensor feedback, and manage power distribution across actuators and end effectors. Texas Instruments' semiconductor products appear in manufacturing automation systems, collaborative robots, and autonomous mobile platforms where power efficiency, signal integrity, and real-time processing constraints define system performance. The company's chips operate in applications ranging from motor drives and vision systems to wireless communication interfaces and safety-rated control architectures.
Texas Instruments serves industrial, automotive, communications equipment, enterprise systems, and personal electronics markets. The company manufactures its own silicon, maintaining control over the complete production chain from design through fabrication and testing. Under CEO Haviv Ilan, the company continues its stated mission of making electronics more affordable through advances in semiconductor technology - developing chips that are smaller, more efficient, more reliable, and more cost-effective for deployment in complex electronic systems including next-generation robotics platforms.