Texas Instruments just started producing 300mm wafers at its Sherman, Texas facility, as SM1, the first of four fabs, have come online. According to the company’s press release, it has started delivering chips from this site to its customers and that’s it’s ready to ramp up output to tens of millions of chips daily. This plant is part of the $60 billion investment into U.S. semiconductor manufacturing the company announced earlier this year, with the second SM2 fab also already underway. TI is investing $40 billion in the four Sherman fabs. Even though the Sherman site broke ground three and a half years ago, its opening is still a major milestone for the U.S. semiconductor industry.
“The start of production at our newest wafer fab in Sherman, Texas, represents what TI does best: owning every part of the manufacturing process to deliver the foundational semiconductors that are vital for nearly every type of electronic system,” Texas Instruments President and CEO Haviv Ilan said. “As the largest analog and embedded processing semiconductor manufacturer in the U.S., TI is uniquely positioned to provide dependable 300mm semiconductor manufacturing capacity at scale.”
