TI Completes Sale of Sensors & Controls Business to Bain Capital

Dallas, TX (April 27, 2006)

Texas Instruments Incorporated (TI) (NYSE: TXN)today announced it has completed the sale of its Sensors & Controls business to affiliates of Bain Capital, LLC, a leading global private investment firm, for $3.0 billion in cash.    

The former Sensors & Controls business has adopted the name Sensata Technologies, and will continue to be headquartered in Attleboro, Massachusetts, and maintain additional manufacturing and technology development centers located in Brazil, China, Holland, Japan, Korea, Malaysia and Mexico, as well as sales offices around the world.    

TI expects to recognize an after-tax gain in the range of $1.6 billion to $1.7 billion from the sale in the current quarter.  The sale did not include the radio frequency identification (RFID) systems operation, which remains part of Texas Instruments.

About Texas Instruments

Texas Instruments Incorporated provides innovative DSP and analog technologies to meet our customers' real world signal processing requirements.  In addition to Semiconductor, the company includes the Educational & Productivity Solutions business.  TI is headquartered in Dallas , Texas , and has manufacturing, design or sales operations in more than 25 countries.

Texas Instruments is traded on the New York Stock Exchange under the symbol TXN.  More information is located on the World Wide Web at www.ti.com.

About Bain Capital

Bain Capital (www.baincapital.com) is a global private investment firm that manages several pools of capital including private equity, venture capital, public equity and leveraged debt assets with more than $38 billion in assets under management.  Since its inception in 1984, Bain Capital has made private equity investments and add-on acquisitions in over 230 companies around the world, including such technology and manufacturing companies as FCI, UGS , ChipPAC and Therma-Wave.  Headquartered in Boston , Bain Capital has offices in New York , London , Munich , Tokyo , Hong Kong and Shanghai.

About Sensata Technologies

Sensata Technologies, formerly the Sensors & Controls business of Texas Instruments, provides leaders in the global automotive, appliance, aircraft, industrial and HVAC markets with sensing and protection solutions that improve safety and efficiency for millions of people every day.

Headquartered in Attleboro , Massachusetts , Sensata Technologies has nine technology and manufacturing centers in eight countries and sales offices throughout the world. For more information, visit www.sensata.com.