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Clockwise from left: Amit Gandre, Bernard Hirsh, Doug Bostrum, Worth Snyder, William Marx, and Sonali Kilkani. [Photos: Tech Titans]

Tech Titans Adds 6 Industry Veterans to Its Board of Directors

by Lance Murray | Nov 12, 2022

Richardson-based Tech Titans has announced the newest additions to its board of directors.

Tech Titans is the largest technology trade association in Texas, representing a quarter million employees through its 300 member companies. The organization says it strengthens the North Texas’ technology community and its reputation by acting as the innovation hub for entrepreneurs, universities, and corporations....

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Local Innovators, Fastest-Growing Company Honored at Annual Tech Titan Awards Gala

by Kevin Cummings | Oct 31, 2022

Some of the top players in the North Texas technology ecosystem were honored Thursday at the annual Tech Titans awards gala. Fujitsu North America CEO Doug Moore was inducted into the Tech Titans Hall of Fame, and Charlie Vogt, CEO of telecommunications firm DZS, won the Corporate CEO Award. The fastest-growing tech company award went to Fort Worth's TimelyMD. "The need to come together as an industry, reconnect with friends, and build new business connections were really what this year’s awards gala was all about," said Tech Titans' Paul Bendel. See the full list of winners here.

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Texas Instruments’ Newest Fab Plant in Richardson Kicks Off Wafer Production

by Lance Murray | Oct 3, 2022

The new 300-mm wafer fabrication plant will help support the future growth of semiconductors in electronics. Called RFAB2, the new "fab" is connected to RFAB1, which opened in 2009 as the world’s first 300-mm analog wafer fab. Inside, 15 miles of automated, overhead delivery systems will eventually move wafers between the two fabs. At full production, the Richardson fabs will manufacture more than 100 million analog chips a day that will go into electronics everywhere, TI says.

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Additive Manufacturing Materials Firm Adaptive3D Relocates Local HQ to Richardson’s Innovation Quarter

by Kevin Cummings | Sep 20, 2022

Adaptive3D is moving its headquarters from Plano to Richardson's newly christened IQ HQ, returning to the city where it was founded. The company is working on photopolymers that separate into two parts at the “nano level,” making them more durable for industries ranging from consumer and healthcare to industrial and transportation. “This move also signals the strength and importance of partnerships with key academic institutions like UT Dallas and the role they play in fostering the collaborative creation of future-ready technologies within the IQ,” says Founder and CEO Walter Voit.

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Meet the 43 Finalists for the 2022 Tech Titans Awards

by Dallas Innovates | Staff Report | Sep 7, 2022

Every year, Tech Titans highlights the top movers and shakers in the North Texas technology ecosystem. Here are the finalists in 11 categories. Winners will be announced at the group's signature gala in October.

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The Last Word: Joey Grisham on What’s Driving Anna’s Growth

by Dallas Innovates | Staff Report | Jul 25, 2022

Bordered by Sherman to the north—a city that recently landed a new $5 billion GlobalWafers silicon wafer plant after breaking ground on what could be $30 billion worth of TI chip plants—and the booming center of Dallas-Fort Worth to the south, the city of Anna looks to be primed for growth.

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Sherman Picked for New $5B Silicon Wafer Plant, Bringing 1,500 New Jobs to North Texas

by Kevin Cummings | Jun 27, 2022

Beating out potential sites in Ohio and South Korea, the city of Sherman was selected today by GlobiTech for a new $5 billion, 3.2 million-square-foot silicon wafer facility. The plant could eventually produce more than 1 million silicon wafers monthly when production begins by 2025. It's Sherman's second big manufacturing win in a month. Just weeks ago, Texas Instruments broke ground in the city on new semiconductor wafer fabrication plants with a potential $30 billion investment.

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TI Breaks Ground on New Semiconductor Wafer Plants in Sherman with Potential $30B Investment

by David Seeley | May 18, 2022

Texas Instruments' 300-mm semiconductor wafer fabrication plants to be built in Sherman mark the largest private sector economic development project in Texas history. The potential investment of $30 billion could create up to 3,000 jobs over time, the company says.

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With a New CEO at the Helm, Bottle Rocket Creates Three Leadership Roles

by Kevin Cummings | Apr 29, 2022

Addison-based Bottle Rocket has promoted three execs into the new roles as it eyes continued growth.

The leadership moves come after the experience consultancy and app maker began the year with a new CEO. Founder and former top executive Calvin Carter is working on a new, stealthy venture called Talon Labs.

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Retail, Tech, and Innovation Leaders Join North Texas AR Startup’s New Advisory Board

by Kevin Cummings | Apr 6, 2022

Spacee, a computer vision- and AI-powered augmented reality company, has unveiled a new three-person advisory board in a moment that founder and CEO Skip Howard calls “critical.”

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Global Semiconductor Maker Sets Up its First North American R&D Operation in Richardson

by Kevin Cummings | Mar 31, 2022

Nexperia, a Netherlands-based semiconductor manufacturer, is opening a new design center in Richardson—its first R&D operation in North America—with plans to rapidly grow its local workforce. The new DFW operations will add to the other five R&D facilities Nexperia operates in Europe, China, and Malaysia.

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Design Connect Create Names New Leaders, Plans Expanded Programming to Help Girls ‘Engineer Their Futures in STEM’

by Kevin Cummings | Mar 25, 2022

The STEM-focused nonprofit wants to help girls become the innovators of the future.

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UTD and OSU Researchers Develop Tech That Can See in Low-Visibility Environments

by Kevin Cummings | Feb 24, 2022

The research team recently unveiled an imaging microchip that can see through low-visibility environments like fog, smoke, and snow. The product of more than 15 years of research, it could one day help drivers and autonomous vehicles detect objects in low-visibility conditions, assist manufacturers in package inspection, and help firefighters navigate through smoke and fire.

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New TI Sensor Tech Drives Toward a Collision-Free Future, Advancing Autonomous Driving and Vehicle Safety

by David Kirkpatrick | Jan 4, 2022

Unveiled at CES 2022 in Las Vegas, the new sensor more accurately monitors blind spots and navigates turns and corners to help avoid collisions.

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Texan by Nature CEO Says ‘The Future Is Innovation.’ Here’s Why Today Is Our Slowest Day

by Quincy Preston | Dec 16, 2021

The nonprofit is uniting industry and conservation as we move faster and faster towards progress.

How do we radically shape the future? In November, the Laura Bush-founded Texan by Nature hosted a conservation summit to tackle the topic. CEO Joni Carswell urged an audience of innovators, collaborators, and changemakers to “Ask yourself ‘what if?’ Do something different and new and more.”

Here are takeaways.

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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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