iSuppli Names Texas Instruments Number One Worldwide DSL CPE Supplier

iSuppli Names Texas Instruments Number One Worldwide DSL CPE Supplier

April 05, 2006

TI's DSL Leadership Continues with Success of Integrated AR7 Solution

    DALLAS, April 5 /Xinhua-PRNewswire/ -- Texas
Instruments Incorporated (TI) (NYSE: TXN) is the top
supplier of DSL (digital subscriber line) customer premises
equipment (CPE) worldwide with 32 percent market share in
2005, according to iSuppli Corporation's "Broadband
and Digital Home Practice, Market Tracker Analysis Q1"
report published March 2006. 

    Key to TI's success in the DSL CPE market has been the
popularity of the AR7 family of products, an open platform
that combines key technologies from TI's broad portfolio
including Voice over Internet Protocol (VoIP) and wireless
LAN (WLAN).  TI has had tremendous success with the AR7
family and has shipped more than 45 million AR7 ports since
it launched the product in 2003.

    "TI has experienced consistently increasing demand
for its AR7 CPE products throughout 2005, resulting in an
impressive lead of more than 5.2 million  ports above its
closest competitor," said Steve Rago, principal
analyst with iSuppli.  "The winner in the telco market
continues to be ADSL, which in 2005 accounted for 90 percent
of the new telco subscribers.  Based on the strong demand we
have continued to see in the first half of this year, we
expect this momentum for leading ADSL/VDSL products to
continue this year and well into the next decade."

    "Our market share leadership in DSL CPE is the
result of helping to make our customers successful with
operators," said Kurt Eckles, director of Marketing
and Customer Support for TI's Residential Gateway and
Embedded Systems business.  "We see this growth
continuing as service providers deploy faster CPUs and
richer LAN interfaces to enable new, innovative services
over ADSL, ADSL2+ and VDSL standards." 

    Building on the success of the AR7 platform, TI
recently unveiled its next-generation UR8 architecture,
which enables manufacturers to deliver an open service
delivery platform with exceptional voice capabilities and
advanced video services over all DSL standards. 

    "Superior voice capabilities will quickly
distinguish the leaders among the next generation of
residential gateways as they become the nucleus for voice
services in the home," said Rago.  "The
next-generation residential gateway must enable telcos to
migrate their circuit-switched subscribers over to their IP
networks without any degradation in quality, ultimately
lowering the cost of voice while enabling them to migrate
to an all-IP network." 

    Texas Instruments Broadband SolutionsFor OEMs
developing broadband communications solutions, TI's
advanced signal processing-based silicon and software
platforms deliver the optimal performance, lower power
consumption, and system-level integration required to
rapidly deploy differentiated next-generation products for
cable modems, digital subscriber line (xDSL) modems,
integrated access devices (IADs), VoIP gateways, carrier
infrastructure, and home and office wireless networking. 
See http://www.ti.com/broadband .

    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's businesses include Sensors
& Controls, and Educational & Productivity
Solutions.  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 http://www.ti.com .

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