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TI Honored by Volkswagen Group for Operational Excellence
July 16, 2025 | Texas InstrumentsEstimated reading time: 1 minute
Texas Instruments (TI) received the prestigious “Operational Excellence” award at the annual Volkswagen Group Award 2025 in Wolfsburg, Germany. The recognition highlights TI’s resilient semiconductor supply strategies and forward-looking investments in production capabilities.
Today’s vehicles rely on thousands of semiconductors that power essential functions from engine control to advanced safety and infotainment. TI’s automotive-qualified semiconductors not only help automakers create safer vehicle systems, but provide the advanced capabilities and scalability needed to meet current and future design requirements.
With more than 30 models planned in 2025 across multiple regions, brands and platforms, Volkswagen Group highlighted the importance of a dependable supply of foundational semiconductors to design the next generation of safer, smarter vehicles. The company emphasized its close collaboration with strategic semiconductor partners like TI to ensure greater efficiency and reliability.
“TI’s technological strength and broad automotive portfolio, paired with our dependable, long-term supply is helping drive the next generation of vehicle innovation,” said Stefan Bruder, president of Texas Instruments Europe. “We are proud to work alongside Volkswagen Group to help create smarter, safer automotive systems with more advanced capabilities and features than ever before.”
Volkswagen Group leverages TI’s product, technology and system-level expertise to shape the transformation of the automotive industry. TI supplies Volkswagen Group with analog and embedded processing products for their next-generation automotive systems, including microcontrollers, processors, power management and interface devices and DLP® digital micromirror devices.
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