How Texas Instruments is turning bold ideas into breakthroughs with semiconductors

Semiconductors: The driving force behind it all

Whether it’s the cellphone that you use to communicate with your family and friends across the country, the car with advanced driver assistance features that helps you travel safely, or the smart thermostat that keeps your home cool when you’re home and conserves energy when you’re not, all of these technologies connect and protect us. And while they seem like second nature now, they all started with an idea.

For nearly a century, semiconductor innovations from Texas Instruments (TI) have turned bold ideas into breakthroughs. When Jack Kilby invented the Nobel Prize-winning integrated circuit at TI in 1958, he unlocked new possibilities, bringing electronics within reach of millions and laying the foundation for nearly 70 years of continuous evolution in computing, processing and modern life.

Semiconductors are the building blocks for modern-day electronics, and TI partners with the world’s best problem-solvers to push the boundaries of what’s possible.

For example, TI introduced one of the earliest examples of edge artificial intelligence with the Speak & Spell in 1978, and brought digital cinema to life through Oscar-winning DLP® technology. And in 2024, we created the world’s smallest microcontroller, further enabling affordable devices that blend seamlessly into people’s lives.

How is any of this possible?

It starts with a strong foundation in which technology and manufacturing work in harmony from the very beginning. By owning the full semiconductor journey from research and design to production, testing and final shipment, TI helps bring new innovations to life.

Our in-house engineering and manufacturing ecosystem gives the world's visionaries greater agility, resilience and confidence to tackle complex challenges.

Vehicles are evolving into sophisticated computing platforms, requiring semiconductors to sense, process and react with split-second precision. AI data centers are growing rapidly, placing enormous pressure on power efficiency; the chips powering those systems must do more while consuming less. And humanoid robots are on their way from prototypes to real-world deployments, but only after addressing fundamental challenges related to sensing, processing and motor control.

These problems represent a new level of complexity, where progress demands new thinking and a deeper level of innovation. Power density, heat dissipation, supply-chain resilience and cost efficiency aren’t obstacles but opportunities.

With more than 80,000 products and the most comprehensive portfolio of general-purpose analog and embedded semiconductors in the industry, TI is guided by a passion to make electronics more affordable through semiconductors.