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.
re: “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.”
Between clean rooms and utilities (special electric, water, special HVAC, etc) it takes time to outfit a ‘front end’ versus just build plain old office space ... then there was the order to be placed for semiconductor fab (fabrication) equipment; some of this is off-the-shelf but leading-edge equipment can have lead times measured into years.