Texas Instruments (TXN) Q2 2026 earnings call transcript

LSEG STREETEVENTS EDITED TRANSCRIPT TXN. OQ - Q2 2026 Texas Instruments Inc Earnings Call EVENT DATE/TIME: JULY 22, 2026 / 8:30PM GMT OVERVIEW: Company Summary LSEG STREETEVENTS | www. lseg. com | Contact Us ©2026 LSEG. All rights reserved. Republication or redistribution of LSEG content, including by framing or similar means, is prohibited without the prior written consent of LSEG. 'LSEG' and the LSEG logo are registered trademarks of LSEG and its affiliated companies. C O R P O R A T E P A R T I C I P A N T S Mike Beckman Texas Instruments Inc - Head of Investor Relations, Vice President Haviv Ilan Texas Instruments Inc - President, Chief Executive Officer, Director Rafael Lizardi Texas Instruments Inc - Chief Financial Officer, Senior Vice President Julie Knecht Texas Instruments - Incoming Chief Financial Officer C O N F E R E N C E C A L L P A R T I C I P A N T S Harlan Sur JPMorgan Chase & Co - Analyst James Schneider, Ph.

D. Goldman Sachs Group Inc - Analyst Stacy Rasgon Sanford C Bernstein & Co LLC - Analyst Atif Malik Citibank Cameroon SA (Douala Branch) - Analyst Vivek Arya Bofa Merrill Lynch Asset Holdings Inc - Analyst Timothy Arcuri UBS AG - Analyst Joshua Buchalter Cowen and Company LLC - Analyst Thomas O'Malley Barclays Investment Bank - Analyst William Stein Truist Financial - Analyst Tore Svanberg Stifel Nicolaus & Company Inc - Analyst P R E S E N T A T I O N Mike Beckman - Texas Instruments Inc - Head of Investor Relations, Vice President Welcome to the Texas Instruments second quarter 2026 earnings conference call. I'm Mike Beckman, head of Investor Relations. 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. In addition, today's call is being recorded and will be available via replay on our website. This call will include forward-looking statements that involve risks and uncertainties 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. Today, I'm joined by our Chief Executive Officer Haviv Ilan and our Chief Financial Officer Rafael Lizardi. Also with us today is Julie Knecht, who will become our chief financial officer on August 1.

Julie has been with TI for more than 25 years and has held a number of finance and accounting roles, most recently serving as chief accounting officer since 2021. As you know, Rafael, who has been our CFO for nearly a decade, plans to retire at the end of August. Rafael's focus on disciplined capital allocation, including our investments in 300mm manufacturing capacity, and commitment to return all free cash flow to shareholders have positioned TI for continued long-term growth and value creation. As this is Rafael's final earnings call, I want to thank him personally for all of his contributions to TI. I'm sure you will join me in congratulating both Rafael and Julie. LSEG STREETEVENTS | www. lseg.

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First, Haviv will start with a quick overview of the quarter. Next, he will provide insight into second quarter revenue results with some details on what we're seeing with respect to our end markets.

Lastly, Rafael will cover the financial results and give an update on capital management, as well as share the guidance for third quarter 2026. With that, let me turn it over to Haviv.

Haviv Ilan - Texas Instruments Inc - President, Chief Executive Officer, Director Thanks, Mike. Let me start with a quick overview of the second quarter. Revenue was $5.5 billion, an increase of 13% sequentially and an increase of 23% year over year. Analog and Embedded Processing both grew sequentially and year on year. Analog revenue grew 26% year on year, and Embedded Processing grew 16%. Our “Other” segment declined 2% from the year-ago quarter. Let me provide a few comments about the current market environment. In the second quarter, revenue came in above the range, as we saw continued growth in industrial and data center, in addition to accelerated growth in automotive. Our investments in inventory and capacity are serving us well, which allows us to support our customers during this time of increased demand.

We are prepared with capacity and have cleanroom space available and are well positioned to support continued growth. Now I'll share some additional insights into second-quarter revenue by end market.

First, industrial increased around 30% year on year and was up about 10% sequentially, growing broadly across sectors and regions. Automotive increased mid-teens year on year and increased upper-single digits sequentially. Data center doubled year on year and grew around 20% sequentially. Personal electronics was flat year on year and grew upper-single digits sequentially. And lastly, communications equipment grew both year on year and sequentially.

With that, let me turn it over to Rafael to review profitability and capital management.

Rafael Lizardi - Texas Instruments Inc - Chief Financial Officer, Senior Vice President Thanks, Haviv, and good afternoon everyone. As Haviv mentioned, second quarter revenue was $5.5 billion. Gross profit in the quarter was $3.4 billion, or 61% of revenue. Sequentially, gross profit margin increased 340 basis points. Operating expenses in the quarter were $1 billion, about as expected. On a trailing 12-month basis, operating expenses were $3.9 billion, or 20% of revenue. Operating profit was $2.3 billion in the quarter, or 42% of revenue, and it was up 48% from the year-ago quarter. Net income in the quarter was $2 billion, or $2.14 per share. Earnings per share included a 5-cent benefit not in our original guidance, due to discrete tax benefits.

LSEG STREETEVENTS | www. lseg. com | Contact Us ©2026 LSEG. All rights reserved. Republication or redistribution of LSEG content, including by framing or similar means, is prohibited without the prior written consent of LSEG. 'LSEG' and the LSEG logo are registered trademarks of LSEG and its affiliated companies. JULY 22, 2026 / 8:30PM, TXN. OQ - Q2 2026 Texas Instruments Inc Earnings Call Let me now comment on our capital management results, starting with our cash generation. Cash flow from operations was $2.7 billion in the quarter and $8.7 billion on a trailing 12-month basis. Capital expenditures were $514 million in the quarter and $3.3 billion over the last 12 months. Free cash flow on a trailing 12-month basis was $6.5 billion, up from $1.8 billion in the second quarter of 2025 and continuing to trend up as growth returns.

Free cash flow in the trailing 12 months includes $1.6 billion of CHIPS Act incentives, which includes both the investment tax credit and direct funding. In second quarter, we received $549 million of ITC-related payments for qualifying capital expenditures. In the quarter, we paid $1.3 billion in dividends. In total, we returned $5.8 billion to our owners in the past 12 months. Our balance sheet remains strong with $7 billion of cash and short-term investments at the end of the second quarter. Total debt outstanding is $14 billion with a weighted average coupon of 4%. Inventory at the end of the quarter was $4.6 billion, down $90 million from the prior quarter, and days were 196, down 13 days sequentially.

Turning to our outlook for the third quarter, we expect TI's revenue in the range of $5.65 billion to $6.15 billion and earnings per share to be in the range of $2.23 to $2.57. We expect our effective tax rate to be about 13% in the third quarter.

In closing, we will stay focused in the areas that add value in the long term. We continue to invest in our competitive advantages, which are manufacturing and technology, a broad product portfolio, reach of our channels, and diverse and long-lived positions. We will continue to strengthen these advantages through disciplined capital allocation and by focusing on the best opportunities, which we believe will enable us to continue to deliver free cash flow per share growth over the long term.

Before I turn it over to Mike to start Q&A, I want to say that it has been an honor to work at Texas Instruments for the last 25 years and to have been CFO during the last decade. I have thoroughly enjoyed working with so many wonderful people. Over that time, we have made TI stronger and positioned it for continued success. I feel confident about the future at TI, and I'm looking forward to what's ahead for the company.

Mike Beckman - Texas Instruments Inc - Head of Investor Relations, Vice President Thanks, Rafael. Operator, you can now open the line for questions.

Haviv Ilan - Texas Instruments Inc - President, Chief Executive Officer, Director Thanks, Harlan. I think you characterized what you're seeing well. The -- I think we -- right now, as we stand in July, we see a setup that -- of a stronger demand, and it's broader. It's not only -- in the last couple of quarters, it was really an industrial and data center play. Right now, we are seeing demand growing to the automotive market. I think my -- I'll talk about Q3. When you think about the above-seasonal guide, I think the contribution will come from all markets. The three markets that we've -- that drove the 2Q growth, meaning industrial, data center and automotive. But Q3 is traditionally a quarter of personal electronics strength.

So I expect strong demand across the board. Now regarding automotive, I think we saw a combination of a couple of things. I think we did see an uptick in -- and by the way, it developed throughout the quarter. So when we came to the call in April, we didn't have the same visibility. It built up as we went through the quarter, led by China. And I think it's really led by EVs and hybrids. Cost of fuel drove that, I believe. In addition, I think our automotive customers have taken their inventory to very low levels. And now as there is a little bit more demand, they find themselves in a situation that is not sustainable. I think that also drove part of the demand.

I think we are in the start of a cycle that is very, very broad. That's kind of -- when I look at it right now, that would be my prediction.

Mike Beckman - Texas Instruments Inc - Head of Investor Relations, Vice President Harlan, do you have a follow-up?

Haviv Ilan - Texas Instruments Inc - President, Chief Executive Officer, Director Yes. Thanks, Harlan. I will just -- first let me just recap what we said in the previous call regarding the first half of the year. We now have the full six months behind us. And as we predicted, pricing was stable in the first half of the year, meaning flat, if you will. And that's an above-average year for us, right? Typically, prices do go down a couple of points every year. And this time, they held. I will say that we have started executing price increases, yes. And because we go to the market direct, we have it -- the discussion. This is not a one-time discussion with our distribution channel.

It's really a discussion customer by customer. So if you will, it will be -- it will be dependent on the customer. Some of it will start to play in, in Q3, but I expect that to continue into the fourth quarter. And also, some of our customers, we decide pricing once a year during our annual price discussions, and that happens only at the end of Q4. So that can continue also into the next year.

Regarding the segments, meaning Analog and Embedded, look, where we see the most pressure, also within lead time escalations, I mentioned automotive, it's right now mainly on the Analog side. That's what we saw in the first part of the year. But I would say LSEG STREETEVENTS | www. lseg. com | Contact Us ©2026 LSEG. All rights reserved. Republication or redistribution of LSEG content, including by framing or similar means, is prohibited without the prior written consent of LSEG. 'LSEG' and the LSEG logo are registered trademarks of LSEG and its affiliated companies. JULY 22, 2026 / 8:30PM, TXN. OQ - Q2 2026 Texas Instruments Inc Earnings Call that Embedded is joining the trend. So if I can -- if I look at our opportunity for the second half of the year, I think we have an opportunity across all markets, but also across the two segments.

I think the pricing discussions for Embedded will be more centered towards the next year.

Haviv Ilan - Texas Instruments Inc - President, Chief Executive Officer, Director Thank you, Jim. Let me frame it at a very high level, and then I'll let Julie comment on this one.

First, look, as I said, we saw the demand developing through the quarter. So it was very dynamic. And as we also mentioned in the last call, the best way to support short-term demand or demand that materializes very quickly through inventory, and that helped in the quarter. But of course, we also have to prepare for the future, and that's where loadings come into play. Julie, maybe you can give some color on this.

Julie Knecht - Texas Instruments - Incoming Chief Financial Officer Sure. So our loadings did increase from first to second quarter. And throughout the second quarter, it did continue to increase. For third quarter, it will really depend on what demand looks like, but we do have cleanroom space available that we can equip and ramp, so we can support a wide range of scenarios from a customer demand standpoint.

Mike Beckman - Texas Instruments Inc - Head of Investor Relations, Vice President Jim, do you have a follow-up? James Schneider, Ph.

Haviv Ilan - Texas Instruments Inc - President, Chief Executive Officer, Director So let me just again remind everyone that we gave a framework of revenue and free cash flow. I think the case of revenue, if I think -- if I remember well, at $20 billion, it was $8 to $9. And I think at $22B, it was $9 to $10. So that framework is still valid, Jim. You can use it as you model the company moving forward. LSEG STREETEVENTS | www. lseg. com | Contact Us ©2026 LSEG. All rights reserved. Republication or redistribution of LSEG content, including by framing or similar means, is prohibited without the prior written consent of LSEG. 'LSEG' and the LSEG logo are registered trademarks of LSEG and its affiliated companies.

JULY 22, 2026 / 8:30PM, TXN.

Rafael Lizardi - Texas Instruments Inc - Chief Financial Officer, Senior Vice President Stacy, this is Rafael. I'll take that one. On OpEx, net of other income and expense and acquisition charges, you should expect all of those to be flat, second quarter to third quarter. That should help you with modeling the company and modeling gross margins.

Haviv Ilan - Texas Instruments Inc - President, Chief Executive Officer, Director Let me maybe clarify that. Thanks for the question, Stacy. It's very good. We have typically a very high -- if you look at our PE, or personal electronics business, typically in 3Q, it's growing nicely, sometimes mid-teens. I expect this business to be growing sequentially, but maybe at a lower level. You saw our results in 2Q year over year, it was -- PE was flat. We are seeing challenges in PE as some shortages are putting pressure on our customers. So I think that the growth is typically -- in Q3, the growth is driven by PE. This time, it's more broad, okay? So think about all the markets.

But PE will be a participant, I believe, because we see the demand breadth is very, very high.

Mike Beckman - Texas Instruments Inc - Head of Investor Relations, Vice President Sorry, can you repeat the question?

Mike Beckman - Texas Instruments Inc - Head of Investor Relations, Vice President I don't have a by end market guide for each of the end markets. But I think as Haviv talked about what we saw, I think that's a good characterization of what we saw in the second quarter. LSEG STREETEVENTS | www. lseg. com | Contact Us ©2026 LSEG. All rights reserved. Republication or redistribution of LSEG content, including by framing or similar means, is prohibited without the prior written consent of LSEG. 'LSEG' and the LSEG logo are registered trademarks of LSEG and its affiliated companies. JULY 22, 2026 / 8:30PM, TXN.

Haviv Ilan - Texas Instruments Inc - President, Chief Executive Officer, Director Yes. Again, we do continue to see strong demand in the data center market, Atif, and I don't expect that to change in the foreseeable future. I think when you talk -- think about future architectures like 800 volts, it will be phased into the market. I think you can envision at the beginning, maybe an AC to DC, maybe AC to 800 volts and then an 800 to 48, 48 to 12, for example, right? That's how you bring in the technology. So to me, that just means higher growth of the TAM, more conversion stages, and that helps our market on the analog and embedded side, if you think about the different analog parts participating in every conversion stage and also the embedded controllers and the signal chain parts.

So I think that is a tailwind to -- for our market. Now in the longer term, and that's going to take some time once we have the SST established, data center input will be at a DC voltage of 800 volts. And then I envision maybe direct conversion from 800 directly to 12 or 6 volts. And -- but that's coming later. And this is where the TAM continues to show strength. The higher voltage, the more opportunity we see.

Mike Beckman - Texas Instruments Inc - Head of Investor Relations, Vice President I think that layers on top of the foundational position that we have in data center, which has been growing very nicely as well. So we are looking forward to both those types of chips contributing in the future. Atif, do you have a follow-up?

Mike Beckman - Texas Instruments Inc - Head of Investor Relations, Vice President So up to where we are now, it's been pretty similar to the overall corporate average. So I wouldn't skew you in either direction far on that. We'll have to see where it goes. I think we'll have to see as it ramps, what that's going to mean. But today, I wouldn't skew in either direction on what it's going to do to the gross margins overall. And what I will say is the good news is that as we ramp in any of the end markets, including data center, it's going to be on 300mm, it’s on newer assets that do have excellent ability to fall through for us.

So we are looking forward to that.

Haviv Ilan - Texas Instruments Inc - President, Chief Executive Officer, Director Yes. Let me start with the industrial market, and maybe I'll say a few words about pricing at the end. So look, the -- I think, Vivek, we have a lot of opportunity in front of us. We -- even with a nice growth in Q2, we are still -- I have to go back to 2022, and we are still lower than that peak, maybe 5 points or 6 points lower than the 2022 peak. So if you think about a trend line of the industrial market, and I like to think about it as mid- to high-single digit growth on a market TAM opportunity. You -- and you're four years later, one can argue that we still have a lot of room to grow ahead of us.

On top of it, I think the data center market is also providing tailwind into the industrial market. Think about sectors like the energy infrastructure, and think about test and measurement. And they were our fastest-growing segments or sectors, as we call them, in the second quarter or the first half of the year. So I think there is more tailwinds ahead. I do believe that customers are early and are not yet building inventory. So I think the setup is very positive.

Regarding pricing, look, as I said, it's -- in our case, it will be really weaved into the future. It depends on the customer. So if I think about the forecast for Q3, the vast majority of it is just unit growth and maybe a little contribution from pricing, but almost insignificant.

Mike Beckman - Texas Instruments Inc - Head of Investor Relations, Vice President All right. Do you have a follow-up, Vivek?

Haviv Ilan - Texas Instruments Inc - President, Chief Executive Officer, Director Yes. I don't think I can help there, but maybe, Mike, you can say a few words about what we're seeing. But look, our opportunity in data center is growing. And the reason it's growing, Vivek, is because of our R&D investments and also our ability to supply. That's the way I look at it. So as we move on and that market becomes a more substantial part of the analog and embedded market in general, ability to supply, ability to supply from geopolitically dependable capacity like we hold is becoming an advantage. So I think as long as we continue to see CapEx coming into data center, I think TI can do very well there.

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OQ - Q2 2026 Texas Instruments Inc Earnings Call Mike Beckman - Texas Instruments Inc - Head of Investor Relations, Vice President Yes. And I would just add, as Haviv talked about, a lot of our chips are used in the power tree involved in the data center. And there's other chips that are also -- that would sit more in the signal chain side that are also there, too. But as you have more power that's dedicated to data centers, as you have a larger number of them out there, we're going to benefit from that, just given the amount of chips that we have in those systems. So it really depends on what that build-out looks like. But as Haviv pointed out, we're in an excellent position from the portfolio that we have and the opportunities that are in front of us that we're working on as well on the ASSP side to be able to grow faster in that market compared to the overall.

So I look forward to that.

Rafael Lizardi - Texas Instruments Inc - Chief Financial Officer, Senior Vice President Yes, so a couple of things in your question. First, on the CapEx expectation for 2026, it continues to be $2 billion to $3 billion. I could not skew it -- I would not skew it or bias it lower on the lower end at this point. If anything, it could be on the higher end of that midpoint, just given demand and how we want to support that for the subsequent years. On your ITC question, ITC can be choppy because it's for equipment that was placed in service the prior year. And so you just saw the first half or even the quarter, it was net -- it was more ITC than CapEx, but you shouldn't expect that.

In fact, if anything, going forward, because a lot of the CapEx will be disproportionately placed in the assembly test operation, which is not in the United States, that portion does not get ITC. So we'll continue to file and get 35% ITC on U. S. manufacturing front end, and expect that benefit, but just -- it can be a little choppy over the years.

Mike Beckman - Texas Instruments Inc - Head of Investor Relations, Vice President Tim, do you have a follow-up?

Haviv Ilan - Texas Instruments Inc - President, Chief Executive Officer, Director Tim, I think you and I discussed maybe end of last year, I do like the market or the complexity of a rack, if you will, just because of the diversity of sockets. And we like them all. We like the more complex one that are higher AUP and usually very competitive LSEG STREETEVENTS | www. lseg. com | Contact Us ©2026 LSEG. All rights reserved. Republication or redistribution of LSEG content, including by framing or similar means, is prohibited without the prior written consent of LSEG. 'LSEG' and the LSEG logo are registered trademarks of LSEG and its affiliated companies. JULY 22, 2026 / 8:30PM, TXN. OQ - Q2 2026 Texas Instruments Inc Earnings Call sockets.

We like to call them ASSPs. We also like, as you mentioned, the catalog ones that you can have several options to solve the problem. But when you have inventory and capacity, you can benefit. So yes, we are seeing examples, real-time examples of, hey, we are line down, please help us. And every time that happens, that's an opportunity, because it's a discussion with the customer, and it's -- when you solve a problem, I think they make more bets on you for the future. So that's part of the reason why you've seen our business doubling more or less year to date. And we plan to continue to have capacity, cleanroom, inventory ahead of demand, so we can react or we can respond to these opportunities.

Julie Knecht - Texas Instruments - Incoming Chief Financial Officer Yes. So -- yes. So as a reminder, Rafael said earlier on the call that OpEx acquisition charges and the net between OI&E and interest should all be about flat to second quarter. And then if you play that in, then you have the fall-through of 70% to 85%, excluding depreciation, you should get in the right zip code. But as far as second -- third quarter is that 70% to 85% is a good placeholder. There's always some puts and takes in there. But it will -- the loadings will depend on what revenue looks like, but that model should get you close.

Haviv Ilan - Texas Instruments Inc - President, Chief Executive Officer, Director But it shouldn't be flat. It should be a little higher.

OQ - Q2 2026 Texas Instruments Inc Earnings Call Haviv Ilan - Texas Instruments Inc - President, Chief Executive Officer, Director Thanks, Josh. I think I also said in my prepared remarks, we are excited about where we are because we have the cleanroom. The cleanroom was our biggest headache in the previous cycle. That, as you know, takes two to three years to be able to equip a cleanroom, and that's behind us. When you think about the combination of -- while we are equipping in a very high level Richardson, RFAB2, we have a full cleanroom available almost in Sherman 1. So -- and not to mention, a shell, a second shell in Sherman 2. So when I think about our Analog opportunity to grow into the brick and mortar we have, we are in a great shape.

On Lehi, we do have to execute on Lehi 2 because as you remember, Lehi 1 enjoys the transfer of external manufacturing done in foundries into Lehi 1, but we are also starting to see growth that is not insignificant on the Embedded side. So Lehi 2 will come in just in time at the end of this year, we'll have the shell, and we can again grow into it seamlessly, as it's not a new site, and we don't need new customer qualifications. Now what we will need to do, and I think Rafael alluded to it, we need to equip the fabs. And we are prepared for a wide range of scenarios, but I think uniquely prepared versus the competition.

I think we are -- we have done the hard work ahead of time. And we have capacity to build into. And regarding the exact numbers, I'll let -- we'll keep that for the capital management call in February. But as Rafael discussed, we're already making decisions right now to think about not only '27 and '28, even beyond. Anything to add, Rafael?

Rafael Lizardi - Texas Instruments Inc - Chief Financial Officer, Senior Vice President No, I would just say, high level, you can always use our -- the framework we've given you of 1.2 times the growth to calculate capital intensity, and that's not a bad rule of thumb to use to get a ballpark figure of where CapEx could go based on your expectations for top-line growth.

Haviv Ilan - Texas Instruments Inc - President, Chief Executive Officer, Director Yes. I think typically, I don't provide so much color on the future. But this time, it's just easy. It's everywhere, okay? So when I look at the demand signal, it's just very strong and broad. And now it's -- we need to execute, right? We -- inventory helped. We are ramping our factories. We are going after it. And let's meet again in October, tell you how it went. But the team has executed in Q2, and I expect them to do the same in Q3. LSEG STREETEVENTS | www. lseg. com | Contact Us ©2026 LSEG. All rights reserved. Republication or redistribution of LSEG content, including by framing or similar means, is prohibited without the prior written consent of LSEG.

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OQ - Q2 2026 Texas Instruments Inc Earnings Call Mike Beckman - Texas Instruments Inc - Head of Investor Relations, Vice President Tom, do you have a follow-up?

Haviv Ilan - Texas Instruments Inc - President, Chief Executive Officer, Director Yes. I'll just -- to the cleanroom question. And again, we'll give you more color during the 2027 capital management call. But in general, we are good for the next three years, okay? So you know what we've -- you can go back to our capital management slide. You can see the facilities between Richardson and Sherman 1 and the shell in Sherman 2 and Lehi 1 and 2. It's for us, okay, let's -- we are in Phase 3, modulate the equipment. That was our vision. We are now executing to it. Of course, I also think about '29 and beyond, but we can give a little bit more color there during the capital management call.

Julie Knecht - Texas Instruments - Incoming Chief Financial Officer Yes. So regulatory approvals are moving as planned. We still expect to close in the first half of next year. And really no changes on how we're planning for the transaction to be financed, still expected to fund the transaction with cash on hand and debt.

Mike Beckman - Texas Instruments Inc - Head of Investor Relations, Vice President Do you have a follow-up, Will?

OQ - Q2 2026 Texas Instruments Inc Earnings Call Mike Beckman - Texas Instruments Inc - Head of Investor Relations, Vice President We have seen backlog. First of all, you look at what second quarter did, we did see backlog build throughout the quarter, both in orders that are for immediate shipment, but also for backlog that's further out in time. We did see that build. And it's reflected in the guide. And as you heard Haviv talk about what we're seeing, we are seeing strength across our core markets.

Haviv Ilan - Texas Instruments Inc - President, Chief Executive Officer, Director Let me just -- maybe just on the lead time, let me just add one point over there, Mike. So lead times are still, I think, very competitive. But they were below -- I think we talked about it in the last quarter on one of my fireside chats on a conference -- they were below 13 weeks in Q2, but we are seeing a little bit of an uptick there, not dramatic. Maybe a couple of weeks higher, simply because the demand is growing. And I do -- when I talk with customers, I do believe our lead times are the most competitive in the market.

Haviv Ilan - Texas Instruments Inc - President, Chief Executive Officer, Director Look, as you know, share in this -- in our market moves slowly, and this is why we like to measure it over time. But as I gave some examples, I think there was a previous question of immediate solving problems in an immediate way, I think we -- many times are the answer. And as you mentioned, in this upcycle, our plan is not to be the problem. We want to be the solution, okay? So in that sense, we are ready for that. I will say that when some of the competition talks about lead times that are 52 weeks away, that's an opportunity for TI because that means that there is a little bit less visibility for customers.

And sometimes they will start a new design even on a very complex part. So we are seeing more opportunities coming our way, but we'll have to measure it over time. As I mentioned, I think we picked some market share last year. We need to let this year play out and see how we did in '26. But I think this cycle will provide more opportunity. And when we get to the peak, we'll see how we did.

Mike Beckman - Texas Instruments Inc - Head of Investor Relations, Vice President Tore, do you have a follow-up?

Mike Beckman - Texas Instruments Inc - Head of Investor Relations, Vice President Yes. Maybe I'll take that, and Haviv, feel free to add. But what we saw in second quarter, and you saw this leading up through first as well, was broad strength across the sector base and the region base. I think that, to Haviv's point earlier, you have had four years of secular content growth that's happened that has added content to industrial automation. We've seen aerospace and defense grow at higher rates, energy infrastructure for reasons probably adjacent to some of the data center reasoning. Robotics grew at a higher rate as well. But if you look at the entire sector based in industrial, all the sectors grew both sequentially and year on year, and every region grew as well.

So it's pretty broad. I would chalk it up more to higher secular content growth than pricing. And as Haviv mentioned, the first half pricing was stable, about flat for us. If we see that benefit, it would likely be in third and beyond, as those conversations happen.

Haviv Ilan - Texas Instruments Inc - President, Chief Executive Officer, Director Yes. Let me just -- to Mike's point, I think he was spot on. This is really driven by secular growth. So you can ask, hey, why did we have to wait so long? It's all about inventory. It's inventory of parts, but it's also inventory of finished goods of the customer. So the customers, I think they've overbuilt during the previous cycle, and they have to go through that inventory depletion. Once they are done, what's waiting? New systems. New systems that were designed in the last four or five years. As you know, design cycles in industrial are long. And I think that's what we are seeing.

We are seeing no more depletion of inventory. On top of it, you’re seeing new generation of systems with higher secular growth. And to me, industrial is not different than automotive. If you look at an end equipment and you look at the generation-to-generation content, the content growth is quite significant. I also want to believe -- and again, time, the results will tell -- that we grew share on the larger content opportunity. So let's see how it does, but I think that's the reason you see such strong growth in industrial and expect that to continue.

Mike Beckman - Texas Instruments Inc - Head of Investor Relations, Vice President And we'll go ahead and close the call. I'm going to move it to Haviv and let him wrap us up.

Haviv Ilan - Texas Instruments Inc - President, Chief Executive Officer, Director Thanks, Mike. Let me wrap up with what we've said previously. At our core, we are engineers, and technology is the foundation of our company. But ultimately, our objective and best metric to measure progress and generate value for owners is the long-term growth of free cash flow per share. Thank you, and have a good evening.