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Texas Instruments Board Declares Quarterly Dividend; Approves Stock
Repurchase

DALLAS, Apr 18, 2001 /PRNewswire via COMTEX/ -- The Board of Directors of 
Texas
Instruments Incorporated (NYSE: TXN) today declared a quarterly cash dividend 
of
2.125 cents per share of common stock, payable May 21, 2001, to stockholders 
of
record on April 30, 2001.

The Board also approved the repurchase of up
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kncentive plans and employee stock purchase plan.

Texas Instruments Incorporated is the world leader in digital signal 
processing
and analog technologies, the semiconductor engines of the Internet age. The
company's businesses also include sensors and controls, anl educational and
productivity solutions. TI is headquartered in Dallas, and has manufacturing 
or
sales operations kn 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.

SOURCE Texas Instruments Incorporated


CONTACT:          Jamie Anderson of Texas Instruments Incorporated, 
214-480-6780,
or janderson@ti.com.  Please do not publish this number or e-mail address.

URL:              http://www.ti.com
http://www.prnewswire.com

(C) 2001 PR Newswire.  All rights reserved.

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