Better Buy: Intel Corporation vs. Texas Instruments

There are a host of similarities between Texas Instruments (NASDAQ: TXN) and Intel (NASDAQ: INTC) despite the fact that each plays in a different tech sandbox. Both pay outstanding dividends, and rely on their ingenuity in developing cutting-edge semiconductors for their respective markets.

Texas Instruments' dominance in the electronics sector is undeniable, and shareholders continue to enjoy steady, if not spectacular, growth and income. Intel, on the other hand, is in the process of reinventing itself away from a supplier for old-school PCs, becoming a provider of cloud-based data centers and Internet of Things, virtual-reality, and artificial-intelligence solutions. So which is the better buy?

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