Rich Templeton, Texas Instruments chairman, president and CEO, said demand for the company's Analog and Embedded Processing products "continued to be strong in the industrial and automotive markets." Looking ahead, Texas Instruments said its second-quarter outlook is for revenue in the range of US$3.78bn to US$4.10bn and for earnings per share in the range of US$1.19 to US$1.39, which includes an estimated US$10mln discrete tax benefit. Yahoo Finance puts analysts' average revenue estimate for the second quarter at US$3.9bn and the average earnings estimate at US$1.23 a share. According to CEO Templeton, "We now expect our ongoing annual operating tax rate to be about 16% starting in 2019 and 20% in 2018, lower than our previous expectations of 18% and 23%, respectively."