Posted on 11/18/2021 5:57:06 AM PST by vespa300
Dallas-based Texas Instruments is betting big on American-made chips, with an ambitious plan to invest up to $30 billion to build as many as four new semiconductor fabrication plants in Sherman.
TI said Wednesday it will begin construction next year on the first two plants producing its 300-millimeter wafers used in everything from cars and trucks to industrial machinery. It estimates chip production will start by 2025.
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aint sounding right. maybe an educated writer made a mistake.
“...chip production will start by 2025...”
Trump will take credit...
If I get to move back to Texas, I’ll be singing this song.....
Bob Wills Is Still the King
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OVFjGc6NxKo
great song...thanks!
Fabs ain’t cheap.
Glad they decided to do that. My dad spent most of his career at that plant. They recently shuttered it to move operations to another plant. This will re-open the existing building and help with Sherman’s growing economy.
“The semiconductor maker plans to gradually shut down the manufacturing facilities in Dallas and Sherman. It said the closures will be completed between 2023 and 2025. Each facility has about 500 employees, according to the company. The factories will continue to operate and there is no immediate change to staffing.Jan 22, 2020”
https://www.dallasnews.com/business/local-companies/2020/01/22/texas-instruments-to-close-two-dallas-area-factories-in-the-next-three-to-five-years/
They didnt just get free money from Dementia's porkulus Bill's did they?
Texas Ping.
Mr. Peabody’s tail must be really be wagging!
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looks like they are upgrading their r&d fab to a production fab.
Seems as if you could put wheels on one, you could license and drive it!
I remember the one-TI-chip hand-held broadcast radios back in the '50s. Actually built one with a TI transistor myself before they became a product..
Gate-all-around is the next faze. TSMC isn’t going to that until after 3nm(2024/2025). China might be behind the eight ball if they invade.
Don’t know anything about wafers other then to eat em. 12 inch can do a lot I presume?
I came away from my years in GE Semiconductor Products Department with a few two-inch (50mm) wafers, only about maybe about 0.025' (~1 mm) thick. These might have twenty or so devices imaged on them, to be separated later by laser-scribing and breaking them apart. I doubt that a 300mm wafer would have only one CPU imaged on it, Likely several, maybe a couple cm square?
Back in the day, the break-even point of profitability was a yield of about 20% of saleable packaged devices. Now? Just guessing.
>>>I came away from my years in GE Semiconductor Products Department with a few two-inch (50mm) wafers, only about maybe about 0.025’ (~1 mm) thick. These might have twenty or so devices imaged on them, to be separated later by laser-scribing and breaking them apart. I doubt that a 300mm wafer would have only one CPU imaged on it, Likely several, maybe a couple cm square?
Back in the day, the break-even point of profitability was a yield of about 20% of saleable packaged devices. Now? Just guessing.>>>
I don’t know what you are talking about and I’m impressed. But I bet I could throw a football farther then you back in the day. 60 yards one time......LOL.
My tennis partner actually works for TI and he’s a VP and up there, way up there. A big shot. I’m sure he knows what you are talking bout.....willis. :)
And about football, never played it, but that's when Jim Brown was only a year ahead of me. He knew me and greeted me by name on the bus to and from Collingdale, he to the athletes' barracks and me to the cheapest rooming available for undergraduates. Very kind and friendly guy, not stuck-up at all like many Orangemen were. You can bet he could carry a ball 60 yards (or more).
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