Talk:Texas Instruments

This article is mainly corporate advertising - from company sources
This article looks WAY too much like corporate public-relations material from Texas Instruments, itself. Small wonder: MOST of the sources are from TI, itself, and its website! Even the references to PRNewswire and BusinessWire are essentially to reprints of TI's own press-releases.

This is completely contrary to the editing standards of Wikipedia, violating Wikipedia's core guidelines: Neutral Point-of-View, Reliable Sources, and -- almost certainly, given the style of most of the text -- Wikipedia guidelines on editing with a Conflict-of-Interest).

For just one example, the article only very briefly addresses (and completely glosses over) TI's pivotal role (and catastrophic failure)  in the development of the digital consumer electronics market -- pocket calculators, digital watches, vocal toys (e.g.: Speak-and-Spell, and (most significantly) home computers. While its role with calculators remains strong, the entire company was reportedly brought to the brink of bankruptcy by the rest of its engagement in that market -- surviving simply by suing its smaller competitors over patent-infringement claims, and exercising its power to restrict their access to computer chips.

TI's massive industry-destructive (and ultimately self-destructive)  consumer products venture "shocked Wall Street" with confessions of up to $100 million dollars in single-quarter losses, leading to that division president's resignation in 1983,   to no avail -- the company ultimately dumping support for over a million of its customers (the second largest group of customers in the home computer market at the time), despite having assured them it would not.

(NOTE: Much more documentation of these facts is available online and in print; I wanted to refrain from "citation overkill").

This group of major omissions from the article is just one of the glaring examples of this article's wildy lop-sided presentation of the history of one of the electronic industry's most influential (and historically controversial) companies.

This article needs to be purged of its promotional language and corporate references, and revised to reflect a neutral and balanced view of the company and its history -- documented primarily from substantial and independent sources, per WP:RS, WP:NPOV, and WP:COI.


 * ~ Penlite (talk) 06:45, 20 October 2020 (UTC)


 * As an uninvolved editor, I think the article may be a candidate for WP:DRAFTIFY due to limited progress in addressing promotional tone issues. I do not know much about Texas Instruments, but this article does not mention the controversy over the pricing of TI-84 and its role in American school classes (source: https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/innovations/wp/2014/09/02/the-unstoppable-ti-84-plus-how-an-outdated-calculator-still-holds-a-monopoly-on-classrooms) -- Minoa (talk) 03:39, 15 June 2024 (UTC)

Nothing about their minicomputers?
TI-990

2603:8001:3846:2D00:F562:2E7C:3C95:8 (talk) 20:47, 26 January 2022 (UTC)

No text in preview
Is it just me or is there no text in the preview popup for this page? Pksois23 (talk) 13:21, 21 November 2023 (UTC)

Stock index
An IP editor has repeatedly added a link to MSCI KLD 400 Social Index, using an index fund sales page as the source. Such a source does not show that this is a significant aspect of this company (or any of the dozens of others company they've been adding the same link to), and a sales page is generally considered an inappropriate link. I am deleting it a second time; please do not attempt reinsertion until some consensus has been reached here. -- Nat Gertler (talk) 20:25, 17 June 2024 (UTC)