With today's close, TI's Analog semiconductor business now represents more than 50 percent of the company's revenue.

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In fact, our analog semiconductor solutions are increasingly at the heart of everything from smartphones to smart appliances to home security systems to satellites to medical sensors to hybrid vehicles.

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In April, TI announced an agreement to acquire analog specialist National Semiconductor.

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Our analog stars are National Semiconductor, Anadigics, Synaptics, and power interface innovator Power-One.

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Swanson had made a bold move by walking away from National Semiconductor, in 1981, to focus on analog technology.

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Exar, a semiconductor company, designs, develops and markets analog and mixed-signal integrated circuits for use in communications, video and imaging products.

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Kicking things off this morning: Volterra Semiconductor (VLTR), which sells high-performance analog and mixed-signal power management chips.

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The supposed Qualcomm default in "digital RF" is entirely fictional, as Qualcomm has moved to all CMOS (complementary metal oxide semiconductor) integrated devices before TI, and RF is intrinsically analog on the front end.

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The most highly valued of our semiconductor picks, Xilinx, sells at a 25% premium, and Analog Devices carries a premium of just 12%.

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