Name: How Texas Became The American Chipmaking Hub
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We've got well over 400 acres here, and we are, in

There will be three other factories, one to the

north and two of them that are to the west of

America's biggest state has become the hub for

Now, because we have ports, because we have

access to materials, because of our low cost of

doing business, we are best situated to lead this

The integrated circuit was invented at Texas

Instruments more than 60 years ago, but it's

held the title for, well, advancing technology on

silicon. But as the cost of making smaller and

smaller transistors has skyrocketed, so has the

size of the machines and the amount of land needed

I mean, Texas is spacious, it's huge, and then it has

geopolitical tensions between China and Taiwan.

The Chips Act set aside more than $52 billion for

GlobalWafers, NXP, Applied Materials, all

these chip giants have ramped up operations in

Apple and Amazon chose Texas for designing their

These beautiful bunny suits are to keep the

product clean. So this is a class one clean room.

We change out all of the air every eight seconds.

So if you ever see an eyelash on a chip, it

We got a rare look inside the clean rooms of three

huge chip fabrication plants, or fabs, around

Texas and took a tour of two more being built for a

total of $47 billion in new investment coming to

While chip companies have made a flurry of big Texas

expansions in the last couple of years, the

states actually had ties to the semi industry for

Geophysical Service, Inc., which four Dallas

engineers reimagined in 1951, renaming it Texas

Instruments. The transistor, the most basic

invented three years earlier at Bell Labs in

California, what would become Silicon Valley.

But it was Jack Kilby at Texas Instruments that

first filed for a patent of the integrated circuit

This invention opened up the possibility of

miniaturizing chips by creating the entire

circuit, not just the transistors, out of

silicon. TI Went on to build the first handheld

electronic calculator in 1967, and it's still well

known today for graphing calculators used in

It is very much so the calculator company to much

of the world. But we are so much more than that,

obviously. You have an electronic device, you

almost certainly have a TI Semiconductor chip

So we have 80,000 products that ship out to

importantly, think about anything that you can plug

into a wall or that has a cord in it very likely has

Kyle Flessner has been with TI for 30 years.

He showed us around TI's RFAB2 in Richardson, just

With this second, bigger fab that came online in

September, TI plans to output a combined 100

million analog chips per day at its two fabs in

We've got about 15 miles of track between these two

factories, and those cars can move as fast as seven

And Flessner took us to the construction site of

TI's $30 billion fab coming to the 45,000

person city of Sherman, 60 miles north of Dallas.

The air comes through, the utilities come through

that support all of that tool infrastructure.

Our fab uses only 300 millimeter or 12 inch and

Samsung is the state's other huge chipmaker.

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