Texas Instruments Incorporated Q1 FY2021 Earnings Call

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Quarter Overview

  • Q1 2021 revenue: $4.3B, up 5% sequentially and 29% year-over-year (compared to Q1 2020).
  • Growth driven by strong demand across industrial, automotive, and personal electronics markets.
  • Analog revenue: up 5% sequentially, up 33% year-over-year.
  • Embedded Processing: up 7% sequentially, up 17% year-over-year.
  • Other segment: up 12% year-over-year.

End Market Performance

  • Industrial: up ~20% sequentially, up ~30% year-over-year; strength broad-based across sectors.
  • Automotive: flat sequentially after a strong Q4 2020; up ~25% year-over-year; shipments up 25% vs. pre-COVID Q4 2019.
  • Personal Electronics: down ~10% sequentially, up ~50% year-over-year; broad-based strength in customer and product sectors.
  • Communications equipment: high-teens sequential growth, flat year-over-year.
  • Enterprise systems: upper-single-digit sequential growth, down ~10% year-over-year.

Operational Updates

  • 80% of products maintain steady lead times; high demand has expanded “hotspots” requiring extended lead times.
  • TI continues adding capacity through 2021–2022, with RFAB II coming online in 2H 2022.
  • Company highlights internal manufacturing (80% wafers in-house; majority of assembly/test in-house) as a strategic advantage for cost and supply control.

Financial Highlights

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Operator: Thank you for standing by. Good day and welcome to the Texas Instruments Q1 2021 Earnings Release Conference Call. Today's conference is being recorded. At this time, I would like to turn the conference over to Mr. Dave Pahl. Please go ahead, sir. Dave Pahl: Good afternoon and thank you for joining our first quarter 2021 earnings conference call. For any of you who missed the release, you can find it on our website at ti.com/ir. This call is being broadcast live over the web and can be accessed through our website. A replay will be available through the web. This call will include forward-looking statements that involve risks and uncertainties and that could cause TI's results to differ materially from management's current expectations. We encourage you to review the notice regarding forward-looking statements contained in the earnings release published today as well as TI's most recent SEC filings for a more complete description. Our Chief Financial Officer, Rafael Lizardi, is with me today, and will provide the following updates. First, I'll start with a quick overview of the quarter; next, I'll provide insight into the first quarter revenue results with more details than usual by end market, including some sequential performance since it's more informative at this time; and then lastly, Rafael will cover the financial results, some insights into onetime items, and our guidance for the second quarter of 2021. Starting with a quick overview of the first quarter. Th

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