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2021-07-07 Economy

Texas Instruments Building New Chip Plant in Dallas

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Posted by Bobby 2021-07-07 00:00|| || Front Page|| [4 views ] Top

#1 300mm diameter. It's cheaper to produce chips from a 300mm wafer since there are 2.25 times as many chips vs 200mm from each wafer processed.

For $3.1 billion TI will be making chips from yesterday's transistor geometries, micro-controllers and such. A new leading edge 5 nano-meter chip plant will cost $10-20 billion.

Posted by Hupanter Angiter6497 2021-07-07 02:45|| 2021-07-07 02:45|| Front Page Top

#2 Oracle, HP both relocated to Texas.
Goldman Sachs is moving its NJ operations to Dallas
Charles Schwab is moving its entire operation to Dallas

TX is on a roll

Posted by Hupeart Hupinenter8729 2021-07-07 02:52|| 2021-07-07 02:52|| Front Page Top

#3 No it is not a NECCO wafer
Its a 300 mm Electronics Chip Wafer
Think Pizza Pan: 12" Pizza (extra cheese 🧀 Hold the Anchovies 🐟 )

Posted by Glerese Grundy1725 2021-07-07 02:55|| 2021-07-07 02:55|| Front Page Top

#4 Communist China just took over the UKs largest chip manufacturing facility in the UK.

Posted by Blackbeard Barnsmell6454 2021-07-07 09:43|| 2021-07-07 09:43|| Front Page Top

#5 Samsung is building a chip fab outside of Austin.

Great business climate, and maybe, outside of Chinese missile range?

Posted by rjschwarz 2021-07-07 13:03|| 2021-07-07 13:03|| Front Page Top

#6 I think in the future that actually being able to verify what your computer's doing is going to be a more important feature than its framerate in world of warcraft.

Posted by Thing From Snowy Mountain 2021-07-07 15:58|| 2021-07-07 15:58|| Front Page Top

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