Texas Instruments is a global semiconductor company that designs, manufactures and sells analog and embedded processing chips for markets such as industrial, automotive, personal electronics, enterprise systems and communications equipment.
Our passion is to create a better world by making electronics more affordable through semiconductors. To accomplish this, we engage with stakeholders around the world to advocate for policies at the local, state, national and international levels of government, which facilitate growth and innovation and reflect our ambitions and values.
Our specific policy interests include:
Tax
We support tax policies that recognize the semiconductor industry is global, capital-intensive and focused on research and development. Worldwide, we to seek to ensure tax policies are competitive, predictable and transparent.
Trade
We support trade policies that enhance supply chain resilience, promote fair competition and ensure the seamless flow of goods and services around the world. We work with governments to encourage agreements and policies that lower costs and remove barriers to trade and set high standards for intellectual property protection.
Talent
Our ability to compete, innovate and succeed relies on our ability to grow, hire and retain top talent at our sites around the world. Our advocacy focuses on policies that support science, technology, engineering and mathematics education programs, as well as workforce development initiatives designed to help meet future industry demands.
Innovation
We support policies that enable long-term investment in research and development and provide funding for scientific research programs at all levels of government, in universities and through public-private partnerships.
Manufacturing
We support policies that help build strong semiconductor supply chains and ensure reliable, sustainable, cost-effective supplies of water and energy. Additionally, we support regulatory frameworks and incentives that keep our manufacturing sites globally competitive.