Dallas-based Texas Instruments selects Sherman over Singapore for its new 300-millimeter semiconductor wafer fabrication plants. Texas Instruments plan to build four new semiconductor chip fabs by investing $30 billion in four plants employing 3000 people locally over time.
Texas Instruments will make its largest electronic production facility in the state and the biggest manufacturing fab in the country. The plants will cover an area of 4.7 million-square-foot site in Grayson County.
Texas Instruments will construct the first two plants in the first phase, set to begin in 2022 estimating chip production starts from 2025. This fab will be producing 300-millimeter wafers and can be used in everything from cars to industry.
“TI’s future analog and embedded processing 300-mm fabs at the Sherman site are part of our long-term capacity planning to continue to strengthen our manufacturing and technology competitive advantage and support our customers’ demand in the coming decades,” said Rich Templeton, TI’s chairman, president, and CEO. “Our commitment to North Texas spans more than 90 years, and this decision is a testament to our strong partnership and investment in the Sherman community.”
For decades a plant that operated in Sherman and another in Dallas are in the process of being closed down as Texas Instruments advanced on producing a high-tech version of wafer made at those sites.
Texas Instruments’s existing 300 mm fab, DMOS6, RFAB1, and upcoming RFAB2 is expected to start their production from the second half of 2022. moreover, LFAB, recently acquired by Texas Instruments, is expected to begin production by 2023.
