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Last November, Korea’s Samsung Electron-
ics, the industry’s largest maker of semi-
conductor memory, announced it had cho-
sen Tyler, Texas as the site of a new fab.
This will make it neighbors with Samsung’s
existing fabs in nearby Austin.

Surprising choice
The choice of Texas came as somewhat
of a surprise, since the company revealed
it lost at least $268 million in damaged Rendering of Texas Instrument’s new 300mm fab in Sherman,
Texas. (Texas Instruments)
product during the state’s February 2021
freeze. TSMC’s fab holdings now include seven
fabs in Taiwan (three 300mm, three
Texas, which offered massive tax benefits 200mm and one 150mm) and two in Chi-
to the foreign chip maker, beat both Arizo- na (one 300mm and one 200mm). It also
na and New York for the new fabs. Produc- operates WaferTech, established in 1996,
tion is scheduled to begin in Tyler in 2024 in Camas, Wash.
using a 3nm process. next page

The Samsung Tyler fab will also be a dis- Draw from Our Tool
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Construction begins this year
Construction is slated to begin this year
on two wafer fabs for the Texas native. TI
says the site has the potential to house up
to four wafer fabs. The fabs will be dedi-
cated to TI’s main product lines, including
analog and embedded processors.

TI says production is expected in 2025.
With the option to include four fabs, in-
vestment at the site could become as
much as $30 billion. TI also has existing
fabs in Dallas and Richardson, Texas. A
new fab in Richardson is schedule to come Made in USA
online this year.

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