Tuesday, February 24, 2009

Texas Instruments 10K

Key markets and share claims:
  • Analog: "The worldwide market for analog semiconductors was about $36 billion in 2008. According to external sources, we have about a 12 percent share...."
  • Embedded Processors: "The worldwide market for embedded processors was about $17 billion in 2008. According to external sources, we have about a 10 percent share....."
Revenue by market:
  • Communications 48%
  • Computing 22%
  • Industrial 10%
  • Consumer (excluding cell phone and PC) 10%
  • Automotive 6%
  • Educational products 4%
Customer concentration: "Sales to Nokia were about 20 percent of our revenue in 2008."

Employees: "At December 31, 2008, we had 29,537 employees."

Contraction in R&D spend continues: "R&D expense was $1.94 billion in 2008, compared with $2.14 billion in 2007 and $2.20 billion in 2006."