#2 Texas Instruments

Happiness (out of 5): 4.14

Average salary: $74,000

Richard (Rich) K. Templeton Rich Templeton is chairman, president and CEO of Texas Instruments.

Texas Instruments is an American company that designs and makes semiconductors, which it sells to electronics designers and manufacturers globally, and is headquartered at Dallas, Texas, United States. It is the third largest manufacturer of semiconductors worldwide after Intel and Samsung, the second largest supplier of chips for cellular handsets after Qualcomm, and the largest producer of digital signal processors (DSPs) and analog semiconductors, among a wide range of other semiconductor products, including calculators, microcontrollers and multi-core processors. Texas Instruments is among the Top 20 Semiconductor producing companies in the world. After the acquisition of National Semiconductor in 2011, the company has a combined portfolio of nearly 45,000 analog products and customer design tools, making it the world's largest maker of analog technology components.

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