{"id":990142,"date":"2026-02-06T08:35:33","date_gmt":"2026-02-06T03:05:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/?p=990142"},"modified":"2026-02-06T08:43:51","modified_gmt":"2026-02-06T03:13:51","slug":"texas-instruments-to-buy-chip-designer-silicon-labs-in-7-5-billion-deal","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/2026\/02\/06\/texas-instruments-to-buy-chip-designer-silicon-labs-in-7-5-billion-deal\/","title":{"rendered":"Texas Instruments to buy chip designer Silicon Labs in $7.5 billion deal"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Texas Instruments on Wednesday agreed to \u200dbuy Silicon Laboratories in a deal valuing the chip designer at $7.5 billion, to \u2060expand its footprint in wireless connectivity chips used for industrial and consumer applications. <\/p>\n<p>For Texas Instruments, whose core strength lies in analog chips that manage signals and power \u200cin electronic \u200cequipment, the acquisition marks its biggest since the $6.5 billion deal for National Semiconductor in 2011.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Texas Instruments on Wednesday agreed to \u200dbuy Silicon Laboratories in a deal valuing the chip designer at $7.5 billion, to \u2060expand its footprint in wireless connectivity chips used for industrial and consumer applications. For Texas Instruments, whose core strength lies in analog chips that manage signals and power \u200cin electronic \u200cequipment, the acquisition marks its biggest since the $6.5 billion deal for National Semiconductor in 2011.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[59,4,10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-990142","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-it-2-the-economic-times","category-newspapers","category-the-economic-times"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/990142","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=990142"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/990142\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=990142"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=990142"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=990142"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}