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Texas Instruments supplies the chips that help electronic equipment handle real-world signals and manage electrical power. These analog chips generate most of its revenue. A smaller business sells embedded processors, including microcontrollers, that perform specific tasks inside equipment. Industrial and automotive customers together account for most sales.
Electronics designers and manufacturers buy its chips mainly through direct channels, including TI.com and its sales team, with distributors handling a smaller share. Its customer base is broad, though one unnamed end customer accounts for a significant share of revenue, primarily from analog products.
Texas Instruments makes most of its chips in-house rather than outsourcing production. That makes factory utilization important to profitability: much of its manufacturing cost is fixed, so producing fewer chips spreads those costs over less output and lowers margins.
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Texas Instruments’ results hinge chiefly on industrial and automotive chip demand and analog pricing; watch Infineon and Renesas too, both important competitors missing from this list.
Analog Devices competes with Texas Instruments for electronics makers’ spending on chips that condition signals and combine analog and digital functions. Watch its advances in accuracy, speed and power consumption: those are areas where it seeks to distinguish its chips from rivals.
ON Semiconductor competes with Texas Instruments to supply automotive and industrial equipment makers with analog and mixed-signal chips. Its sales to those customers are worth watching for demand clues: automotive accounted for an estimated 51% of its 2025 revenue and industrial for 28%.
STMicroelectronics competes with Texas Instruments for automotive, industrial and personal-electronics customers buying chips that handle signals, manage power and control equipment. Watch its cooperation with carmakers taking a more direct role in chip sourcing, an area where those customers increasingly help choose suppliers.
NXP competes with Texas Instruments to supply automotive and industrial customers with chips that control equipment, process data and handle analog signals. Its microcontroller and processor business is the part to watch alongside Texas Instruments’ Embedded Processing business.
Microchip competes with Texas Instruments for industrial and automotive equipment makers buying control, processing and analog chips. Watch its hardware-and-software packages, which aim to supply a large share of the chips a customer needs rather than just individual components.
Monolithic Power Systems competes with Texas Instruments to sell computing, automotive and industrial equipment makers chips that manage electrical power. Watch its compact, single-chip power products, whose integration and efficiency are central to how it competes with Texas Instruments’ Power line.
Allegro MicroSystems competes with Texas Instruments to supply automotive and industrial customers with chips that drive motors, manage power and sense motion or current. Its sales of motor-driver and magnetic-sensor chips offer a focused view of those shared equipment markets.
Diodes competes with Texas Instruments for electronics designers’ purchases of analog and mixed-signal components. Watch any price cuts in those product lines: Diodes says it may lower prices to compete, affecting its sales and margins.
Power Integrations competes with Texas Instruments in chips that convert power and drive switches or motors in electronic power supplies and motor-control systems, selling through distributors to equipment and power-supply makers. Watch its integrated high-voltage products, which combine several functions to reduce component count and design complexity.
Silicon Laboratories competes with Texas Instruments for connected-device customers buying wireless-connectivity and mixed-signal chips. Watch its Bluetooth and Wi-Fi products, where combining functions into fewer chips can reduce system cost and power use—the same wireless-connectivity area served by Texas Instruments’ Embedded Processing business.
Texas Instruments Incorporated earningsThis company
Texas Instruments sells analog chips and embedded processors to industrial, automotive and other customers, and this report will show whether demand is absorbing the cost of expanded manufacturing.
Read revenue in Analog and Embedded Processing alongside gross margin. Growth in both businesses with a stable or rising margin would suggest that orders and higher factory use are offsetting expansion costs; weaker revenue with a falling margin would show that demand or product mix is not yet spreading the fixed costs of Texas Instruments’ factories.
NXP Semiconductors N.V. earningsNXPI
NXP’s report will show whether automotive and industrial customers’ demand for microcontrollers and processors is also supporting Texas Instruments’ Embedded Processing business.
Watch how NXP’s automotive and industrial sales change, and compare that with the markets served by Texas Instruments’ Embedded Processing business. Strength or recovery on both sides would point to steady equipment-maker demand for control and processing chips; weaker NXP sales would flag possible pressure in markets Texas Instruments also serves, not report Texas Instruments’ own results.
Allegro MicroSystems, Inc. earningsALGM
Allegro MicroSystems’ report will show whether automotive and industrial customers’ purchases of motor-driver and magnetic-sensor chips are also supporting demand for related Texas Instruments analog products.
Watch sales of Allegro MicroSystems’ motor-driver and magnetic-sensor chips. Stronger sales would indicate resilient purchases for related automotive and industrial equipment, supporting the case for demand in Texas Instruments’ competing analog products; weaker sales would point to softness in these specific uses, not establish the direction of Texas Instruments’ entire Analog business.
Monolithic Power Systems, Inc. earningsMPWR
Monolithic Power Systems’ report will show whether computing, automotive and industrial equipment makers’ purchases of integrated power-management chips are also supporting demand for Texas Instruments’ power products.
Watch sales of Monolithic Power Systems’ power-management products, especially its integrated, efficiency-focused offerings. Stronger sales would show that equipment makers are still buying integrated power solutions, a useful demand signal for Texas Instruments’ Power line; weaker sales would suggest the shared markets may be cooling, though the companies’ product mixes differ.
STMicroelectronics N.V. earningsSTM
STMicroelectronics’ report will show whether a competitor can win orders as carmakers take a more direct role in chip sourcing, a useful read on the supplier choices Texas Instruments faces.
Watch STMicroelectronics’ automotive sales alongside any reported progress in its cooperation with carmakers on direct chip sourcing. Stronger automotive sales with that cooperation translating into orders would show that carmakers’ supplier choices are bringing business to a rival, a relevant competitive pressure for Texas Instruments; cooperation without stronger sales would show that the sourcing shift has not yet produced visible business.
ON Semiconductor Corp earningsON
onsemi’s report will show whether automotive and industrial equipment makers’ purchases of analog and mixed-signal chips are also supporting demand in two major Texas Instruments markets.
Read onsemi’s sales to automotive and industrial customers together. Stability or growth in both would indicate that purchases remain supportive in two important Texas Instruments markets; weakness in both would point to softer demand there. onsemi has a different product mix, so this is a market signal, not a substitute for Texas Instruments’ own figures.
Diodes Inc earningsDIOD
Diodes’ report will show whether competitors are cutting prices to win orders for analog and mixed-signal components, adding pricing pressure for Texas Instruments.
Watch whether Diodes reports price cuts and whether its gross margin weakens alongside them. Both together would suggest rivals are trading price for orders, making it harder for Texas Instruments to hold pricing on comparable products; no sign of cuts with a stable margin would offer less evidence of that pressure.
Industrial Production MoM (Oct)
Industrial production tracks output from factories, mines and utilities; stronger activity can prompt TI’s industrial and automotive customers, which together generated about two-thirds of 2025 revenue, to buy more semiconductors, while weaker activity can reduce orders and factory loading.
Read stronger factory, mine and utility output as a sign that demand for industrial goods and their inputs may support orders from TI’s industrial and automotive customers; weaker output points to softer orders and factory loading, with fixed manufacturing costs weighing more on fewer shipments.
Analog Devices, Inc. earningsADI
Analog Devices’ report will show whether electronics makers’ purchases of signal-conditioning and mixed-signal chips are holding up in the market that most directly overlaps Texas Instruments’ largest business, Analog.
Watch Analog Devices’ Analog sales and its reported advances in accuracy, speed and power consumption. Growing sales would show that electronics makers’ purchases in the overlapping product market are holding up; weaker sales could reflect softer shared demand or tougher competition, so product developments help distinguish the pressure Texas Instruments may face.
