Texas Instruments unit finds new life

Executives of the former Sensors & Controls division of Texas Instruments went through hundreds of names before they finally decided to call the new, independent company Sensata Technologies Inc. The name “sensata” in Latin means “those things gifted with sense.”

And it made “sense” for the Attleboro company to split from Texas Instruments and stand alone through a leveraged buyout by global investor Bain Capital, said Tom Wroe, Sensata CEO. More

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