They’ve steadily expanded over the years, I wouldn’t be surprised if this was real. It’s not just calculators, TI chips show up in a lot of military hardware in particular.

Based on every one of these promises ever, yes. It's probably somewhere between vaporware and a small tertiary facility.

Their announcement seems to be a mix of new and already announced expansions.

Most of these projects invest heavily in renewable energy, becuase the scale makes it cost efficient. During the Biden era, there were a bunch of additional incentives to push for renewable investments in these projects, on top of Texas's very generous renewable tech incentives - most ONG companies began investing heavily in renewables all the way back in the 2000s because they're ENERGY conglomerates first and foremost.

If you have a beating pulse and a strong renewable tech IP, you will raise a seed successfully from the Saudi PIF or Cheveron Ventures even in this market. Sadly, this is HN, not Bookface, so most ideas are bad ideas. Sucks too because it was a very fruitful demo days - one of the more impactful over the past several years.

Yes.

CHIPS invested heavily in OSAT and Packaging capacity - especially in TX. Samsung, Micron, OmSemi, and TI took full advantage of that under the Biden admin while Intel and TSMC were fighting on the airwaves to undermine each other.

Much of the rest has been reinvested in SK and India (TI is part of the SCL Mohali modernization RFP) as part of the QUAD+ initiative.

A lot of us in the private and public sector working in this space aren't idiots.

This should be one of the biggest wins for US manufacturing since the Foxconn plant in Wisconsin. /s

Step 1: Announce American Investment.

Step 2: stroke Trump's ego

Step 3: receive money

Step 4: foxconn their way to the bank

Can’t blame them for trying to pry a few dollars from an administration that seems desperate to show some wins.

They wont its another marketing scam by the admin lol, promise shit now, don't deliver reap benefits till the public/admin forgets, you dont actually have to do shit you just have to say you will same as the last time

Mortgaged what future?

The linked article doesn’t even try to complete the argument… there’s not a single reason offered why TI could plausibly have increased total revenues more… instead of just spinning their wheels from a higher cost base.

Or to put it another way, why wouldn’t that revenue growth have gone to their competitors?, which did in fact happen.

It's just pretend to keep the current admin happy, they know he won't be around for long.

The downfall of so many large companies back then, including general Capital, basically turning into a finance arm glorified general electric

CEO doing it to get quick cash from Trump.

Any company large/influential enough to get in front of trump right now is gonna be in the news saying this stuff. The entire admin runs on "the last person to convince trump".

Trump pardoned a bunch of criminals, drug dealers, and other trash people because the right person talked to him at the right time.

This is exactly what people said would happen. It's open season for bribery

They also currently have one of the largest debt burdens of their group ($13B - 75% of shareholder equity)

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> What's a "foundational semiconductor"?

What PA and Fairchild did. We haven’t had a new-entrant opening for fundamental semiconductor design for decades, a fact laid bare in their top engineers’ comp. (No clue if this is what they are actually doing.)

Also known as a PR semiconductor.

FD-SOI fabs are lacking. It's a planar transistor technology used frequently in very low power/thermal devices with small packages and with a high SEU tolerance. Lattice semiconductor use them in their FPGAs, which are the lowest power draw FPGAs on the market at the moment, with a really flat power curve all the way up to 125C. They're used everywhere in A&D and industrial, as root-of-trust devices on servers, and are the largest FPGA manufacturer by volume.

Currently it's fabbed in France (STMicro), Germany (GF), and South Korea (Samsung). No plans to onshore that in the US.