Posted on 06/18/2025 12:20:05 PM PDT by DFG
Texas is slated to capture a massive chunk of a $60 billion semiconductor investment by Texas Instruments, and plants in Sherman and Richardson are poised to get the lion's share of the spending.
Dallas-based TI (Nasdaq: TXN) revealed June 18 it has committed more than $60 billion across three semiconductor complexes in Richardson and Sherman, Texas, and Levi, Utah. The funding appears to be the largest semiconductor investment in the U.S. and would support more than 60,000 jobs across the country.
The company has dedicated about $40 billion of the investment to its Sherman campus, $6 billion to its Richardson site and the rest of the funding to its Utah campus.
The announcement comes as the company confirmed to Dallas Business Journal that it completed the first plant in its Sherman mega-site after three years of construction and is currently focused on installing equipment and moving employees into the facility. The plant will start shipping semiconductors, which are used in a wide range of products such as phones and cars, later this year.
re: “This one?”
That’s it. Also notice the J(ack) Kilby name adjacent to J(erry) Merryman.
“The miniature calculator described in the new TI patent (editor’s note - this was the ‘Cal-Tech’) was the result of work done at TI in the mid-60s. The patent (Number 3,819,921), originally filed in 1967, was awarded to TI June 25, 1974” per http://www.vintagecalculators.com/html/ti_cal-tech1.html
In the early/mid 90’s a copy of that patent hung on the wall in the lobby of the corporate office in the North Building. Jerry Junkins was TI president then, and I saw Junkins on one occasion coming into TI thru that corporate office entrance.
Also per US3819921:
“Related US. Application Data [63] Continuation of Ser. No. 143,192, May 13, 1971, abandoned, which is a continuation of Ser. No. 671,777, Sept. 29, 1967, abandoned.”
Unless TI is going to do a huge amount of investment in sub micron, they are throwing away $$$.
I don’t think they have the expertise based on their current technology.
Apple doesn’t need TI
TSMC meets all their current needs and Intel would make a good backup.
That sort of thing is usually done by issuing stock.
Not so. There is an abundance of applications that don't need monster CPUs.
7734 ?
Got my first pocket TI calculator in 1975.
With the case!
re: “Unless TI is going to do a huge amount of investment in sub micron, they are throwing away $$$.”
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re: “Unless TI is going to do a huge amount of investment in sub micron, they are throwing away $$$.”
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