Texas Instruments Incorporated Receives a Shareholder Proposal from Friends Fiduciary Corporation

Texas Instruments Incorporated specializes in the design, manufacturing and marketing of semiconductors. Net sales break down by family of products as follows: - analog circuits (74.4%): operational amplifiers, audio amplifiers, interface circuits, data converters, power management circuits, logic integrated circuits, etc.; - processors (19.2%): microprocessors, digital signal processors, microcontrollers, etc. for telecom applications (telephones and cellular infrastructures), and automobiles; - other (6.4%): primarily graphic calculators et wireless connectivity products. Net sales are distributed geographically as follows: the United States (33.2%), Europe/Middle East/Africa (26.5%), China (18.8%), Japan (10.2%), Asia (9.8%) and other (1.5%).