Chip Industry Looking Forward To Texas Instruments' Next Big Deal, Preferably In Analog

Driving TI's appetite for M&A, according to the sources, is a desire to improve on its profitability and increase its share in the fragmented market for analog circuits, which process linear signals including sound and light waves. These devices include various control circuits that generate specific signals, modify such signals, or convert such signals to digital binary signals for processing. The right deal could boost TI's operating margins and profits by increasing the utilization rates in T...