Texas Instruments

Company overview. Texas Instruments Incorporated ("TI") is a publicly traded semiconductor company headquartered at 12500 TI Boulevard, Dallas, Texas. It was founded in 1930 (originally Geophysical Service Inc., renamed Texas Instruments in the 1950s) and lists on Nasdaq under the ticker TXN (CIK 0000097476). TI is an independent public company with no parent. Per its own published figures and FY2025 filings, it employs roughly 33,000 people and reported approximately $17.7 billion in revenue for fiscal year 2025, with an operating margin in the mid-30% range.

Products / operations. TI designs, manufactures and sells analog and embedded semiconductors, operating primarily through two segments: Analog (power management and signal-chain products) and Embedded Processing (microcontrollers, processors, wireless connectivity, and radar/mmWave devices). Its roughly 80,000-product catalog serves industrial, automotive, data center, personal electronics, and communications-equipment customers. TI is vertically integrated, owning and operating its own wafer fabs (including 300mm capacity) rather than outsourcing, and it retains a small legacy consumer business selling graphing calculators. It reports producing tens of billions of chips annually and serving 100,000+ customers.

Patent-litigation posture. TI is an operating company, not a patent assertion entity. In the tracked data it appears in exactly one case and only as a defendant (0 as plaintiff, 1 as defendant); this is the classic profile of an operating manufacturer targeted by a non-practicing entity rather than an active two-way litigant. The single tracked matter, Cedar Lane Technologies Inc. v. Texas Instruments, was filed in the Western District of Texas.

Notable cases and context. Cedar Lane Technologies is a Canadian patent-assertion entity that Stanford's NPE database and Unified Patents characterize as a non-practicing entity asserting acquired patents (some traced to Intellectual Ventures and AVInnov). Public trackers report Cedar Lane has filed several hundred infringement suits since inception, frequently against semiconductor, camera/imaging, and financial-services defendants, with most matters resolving by settlement; its filings have clustered in the Eastern and Western Districts of Texas—plaintiff-friendly venues. TI's appearance as a Cedar Lane defendant is consistent with that pattern. No merits findings in the TI matter are reflected in the case data, and this profile takes no position on it.

Sources: TI "About TI" and SEC filings; Fortune/PitchBook company data; Stanford NPE Litigation Database; Unified Patents; RPX Insight.