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Texas Instruments Names Julie England General Manager of RFID Systems Group

Posted on: Tuesday, 8 June 2004, 06:00 CDT

DALLAS, June 8 /PRNewswire/ -- Julie England has been named general manager of Texas Instruments' radio frequency identification (RFID) Systems group, a business unit of Texas Instruments Sensors & Controls Division. Previously, she was a general manager of TI's Sun business within the Semiconductor group and has been a TI vice president since 1994. England will replace David Slinger, who is retiring in July 2004 after 32 years at the company. She will report to Tom Wroe, president of TI Sensors & Controls.

England will direct TI's RFID business, which provides market-leading transponder and reader technology to identify, track and secure assets in applications including retail and supply chain logistics, wireless payment, access control, document tracking, healthcare, product authentication, sports timing and ticketing. RFID is expected to be a $2.13 billion market by 2005, according to Venture Development Corporation. The Department of Defense and major retailers including Wal-Mart, Target and others have announced supplier mandates for RFID. The Food & Drug Administration (FDA) and the U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) are exploring the use of the technology for identifying pharmaceuticals and livestock.

"RFID is an exciting and dynamic market that presents tremendous growth opportunities for Texas Instruments," said England. "We are committed to delivering highly reliable solutions to our customers, including products that meet EPC and ISO standards."

England joins Sensors & Controls after more than 20 years in TI's Semiconductor business having held a variety of leadership positions in product engineering, wafer fabs, quality and business management. England is a graduate of Texas Tech University's College of Engineering and the Stanford University Executive Program in Strategy and Organization.

About Texas Instruments

Texas Instruments is an industry leader in radio frequency identification (RFID) technology and the world's largest integrated manufacturer of RFID tags, smart labels and reader systems. With more than 400 million tags manufactured, Texas Instruments RFid Systems' technology is used in a broad range of applications worldwide including access control, automotive, document tracking, livestock, product authentication, retail, sports timing, supply chain, ticketing and wireless payment. TI is an active member of many standards bodies, including EPCglobal, ISO, and IEC, working to drive the adoption of global standards for RFID. For more information, contact TI-RFid Systems at 1-888-937-6536 (North America) or +1 972-575-4364 (International), or visit the Web site at http://www.ti-rfid.com/ .

Texas Instruments Incorporated provides innovative DSP and analog technologies to meet our customers' real world signal processing requirements. In addition to Semiconductor, the company's businesses include Sensors & Controls, and Educational & Productivity Solutions. TI is headquartered in Dallas, Texas and has manufacturing, design or sales operations in more than 25 countries. Texas Instruments is traded on the New York Stock Exchange under the symbol TXN. More information is located on the World Wide Web at http://www.ti.com/ .

Texas Instruments RFid Systems

CONTACT: Bill Allen of Texas Instruments RFid Systems, +1-214-567-2511,or billallen@ti.com ; or Kim Novino of Bridgeman Communications,+1-617-742-7270, or kim@bridgeman.com , for Texas Instruments RFid Systems

Web site: http://www.ti-rfid.com/http://www.ti.com/

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