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Texas Instruments’ new 300mm semiconductor "fabs" in Sherman, Texas, SM1 and SM2. Two other TI semiconductor fabrication plants are planned adjacent to the ones seen above. [Photo: Texas Instruments]
Apple’s $600B Commitment to Manufacturing in U.S. Includes Several Partner Sites in North Texas
by David Seeley | Aug 7, 2025
As it announced a new $100 billion commitment to manufacturing in America Monday—for a planned total of $600 billion over the next four years—Apple said a lot of that money will be spent in Sherman, 60 miles north of Dallas. Its partners there include Texas Instruments, GlobalWafers America, and Coherent, which makes the lasers that enable FaceID on iPhones and iPads.
by Lance Murray |
Jun 18, 2025
Dallas-based TI said it's working with the Trump administration to expand its U.S. foundational semiconductor manufacturing capacity at its "fab" plants in Richardson and Sherman in North Texas, as well as in Lehi, Utah. Combined, TI’s new manufacturing mega-sites will support more than 60,000 U.S. jobs, the company said.
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by Lance Murray |
Sep 11, 2024
PWT said its new Sherman headquarters will enable it to respond even more rapidly to customer demand while ramping up its production "in a safe and sustainable way." The division of fintech Water on Demand is part of a move by local industries and communities to take clean water "private," the companies said.
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by David Seeley |
Aug 16, 2024
The funding from the U.S. Commerce Department will support the construction of two semiconductor wafer fabrication plants in Sherman, 40 miles north of Dallas—part of TI's $30 billion, four "fab" project in the city. It will also support the buildout of another TI fab plant in Lehi, Utah.
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USPTO Announces Semiconductor Technology Pilot Program To Help Fast-Track Innovation
by David Seeley | Nov 30, 2023
News of the USPTO fast-tracking is surely music to the ears of many North Texas innovators. Just last month, the region was awarded the Texoma Semiconductor 'Fablet' Tech Hub. Meanwhile, TI is building a $30 billion semiconductor campus in Sherman, and GlobiTech is building a $5 billion "fab plant" in the same North Texas city.
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by David Seeley |
Aug 18, 2023
Dallas-Fort Worth has been growing northward for generations. But momentum kicked up a notch when two big semiconductor wafer fabrication plant projects were slated for Sherman: a $30 billion plan by Texas Instruments to build four "fab" plants, and GlobiTech's planned $5 billion silicon wafer facility. Together, the projects are expected to bring 4,500 jobs to the area.
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by Dallas Innovates | Staff Report |
May 15, 2023
Texas Instruments broke ground on the new 300-millimeter semiconductor wafer fabrication plants in May 2022, noting that the project could ultimately support as many as 3,000 direct jobs. The new "fabs" will manufacture tens of millions of analog and embedded processing chips daily that will go into electronics everywhere.
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by Quincy Preston |
Dec 7, 2022
A new plant, an expansion to its current 76-acre site, would produce wafers for semiconductor chips and create 700 jobs.
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Design concept for Texas Instruments’ new 300-millimeter semiconductor wafer fabs in Sherman, Texas. [Rendering: Texas Instruments]
Texas Instruments Chooses Sherman for New $30B Semiconductor Chip Site
by Alex Edwards | Nov 17, 2021
At full build-out, the 4.7 million-square-foot semiconductor fabrication plant will be the largest electronics production facility in Texas and among the largest manufacturing plants of any kind in the U.S.
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by David Seeley |
May 5, 2021
The optical tech firm produces iPhone laser technology that powers Face ID, Memoji, Animoji, and Portrait Mode selfies.
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by Taylor Lowder |
Apr 19, 2018
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by Lance Murray |
Dec 14, 2017
The Sherman facility will be transformed into a high-tech center developing VCSEL chips and is expected to open in the second half of 2018.
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