Texas Instruments Inc. (
TI) is an American electronics company that designs and makes
semiconductors, which it sells to electronics designers and manufacturers globally. Headquartered in
Dallas, Texas, United States, TI is the third largest manufacturer of semiconductors worldwide after
Intel and
Samsung, the second largest supplier of chips for
cellular handsets after
Qualcomm, and the largest producer of
digital signal processors (DSPs) and
analog semiconductors, among a wide range of other semiconductor products, including calculators, microcontrollers and
multi-core processors. Texas Instruments is among the
Top 20 Semiconductor producing companies in the world.