Description of business, including segment information

3 Months Ended

Mar. 31, 2015

Organization Consolidation And Presentation Of Financial Statements [Abstract]

Description of business, including segment information

1. Description of business, including segment information

We design, make and sell semiconductors to electronics designers and manufacturers all over the world. We have two reportable segments, which are established along major categories of products as follows:

· Analog – consists of the following product lines: High Volume Analog & Logic; Power Management; High Performance Analog; and Silicon Valley Analog, which consists primarily of products that we acquired through our purchase of National Semiconductor Corporation (National) in 2011.

· Embedded Processing – consists of the following product lines: Processor, Microcontrollers and Connectivity.

We report the results of our remaining business activities in Other.

Segment information

	For Three Months Ended
	March 31,
	2015		2014
Revenue:
Analog	$	2,035	$	1,837
Embedded Processing		672		656
Other		443		490
Total revenue	$	3,150	$	2,983
Operating profit:
Analog	$	721	$	498
Embedded Processing		123		52
Other		114		140
Total operating profit	$	958	$	690

We use centralized manufacturing and support organizations, such as facilities, procurement and logistics, to provide support to our operating segments. Costs incurred by these organizations, including depreciation, are charged to the segments on a per-unit basis. Consequently, depreciation expense is not an independently identifiable component within the segments’ results and, therefore, is not provided.