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                                                                  EXHIBIT (a)(9)

            Texas Instruments Incorporated Consummates Tender Offer
                 for Shares of Amati Communications Corporation

     Dallas (December 24, 1997) -- Texas Instruments Incorporated (NYSE:TXN) and
its wholly-owned subsidiary, DSL Acquisition Corporation, announced that DSL
Acquisition Corporation has consummated its tender offer for all of the issued
and outstanding shares of common stock of Amati Communications Corporation
(NASDAQ:AMTX) of San Jose, California, at a price of $20 per share, net to the
seller in cash.

     DSL Acquisition Corporation has been advised by the depositary for the
tender offer that as of the expiration 15,430,622 shares of Amati's common stock
(approximately 78% of the issued and outstanding shares) had been validly
tendered and not withdrawn.

     Completion of the acquisition is expected to occur following a special
meeting of Amati's stockholders in the first quarter of 1998.

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NOTE TO EDITORS: Texas Instruments Incorporated is a global semiconductor
company and the world's leading designer and supplier of digital signal
processing solutions, the engines driving the digitization of electronics.
Headquartered in Dallas, Texas, the company's businesses also include
calculators, productivity products, controls and sensors, metallurgical
materials and digital light processing technologies. The company has
manufacturing or sales operations in more than 25 countries.

Texas Instruments is traded on the New York Stock Exchange under the symbol TXN.
More information is located on the World Wide Web at http://www.ti.com.
