Texas Instruments: Cell Phone or Gas?
An Extra Cell Phone Or Tank of Gas?
Texas Instruments, #2 maker of semiconductors that run mobile phones, Q1 profit +28%; sales +2.5%;
but missed estimates and gave lowered forward guidance on concern that a U.S. economic slowdown will curb mobile-phone sales.
The company said its stockpile of unsold chips rose 11% from the end of last year.
CEO Rich Templeton: "Given uncertainty in the near-term economy, we have become more conservative with our outlook for the second quarter."
Texas Instruments, #2 maker of semiconductors that run mobile phones, Q1 profit +28%; sales +2.5%;
but missed estimates and gave lowered forward guidance on concern that a U.S. economic slowdown will curb mobile-phone sales.
The company said its stockpile of unsold chips rose 11% from the end of last year.
CEO Rich Templeton: "Given uncertainty in the near-term economy, we have become more conservative with our outlook for the second quarter."
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