Texas Instruments (as said in Wiki) was founded in 1951 and produces big range of products – from semiconductors to calculators. Texas Instruments was involved into different business activities during different periods. For example, in 1980 they developed products related to artificial intelligence, In 1979 they entered computer market with their TI99/4, a bit earlier they also produced digital clock, sensors and controls for various industries, and even software. Nowadays they have several main divisions, among them – semiconductors, signal processing, micro-controllers and processors. They are truly famous for their calculators – graphical, scientific, financial e.t.c. If you go to their official website (http://www.ti.com/)- you will see what products exactly they produce and offer at the moment (the list is just huge). Texas Instruments has many awards (for example, they were called Manufacturer of the Year for Global Supply Chain Excellence by World Trade magazine). The company is on of the top semiconductors procurers in the world. That is short annotation of what is written in Wiki about Texas Instruments company.