Time to bring back the TI-99/4!
Great news!
“[TI said] 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.”
How can the plant be “completed” if they are just moving equipment in now. And how can the plant be in production in less than six months? Must be older semiconductor tech.
Semi conductors are pretty important. If China occupies Taiwan, this will be the reason.
“”””Texas is slated to capture a massive chunk of a $60 billion semiconductor investment by Texas Instruments”””
We need to start asking where TI is going to get $60 billion to actually make these investments.
TI-59 got me through my Chemical Engineering degree. I was a TI-59 wizard.
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.
Got my first pocket TI calculator in 1975.
With the case!