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Thought they spending 60Bn on job creation?
Texas Instruments has informed employees of upcoming layoffs at its Dallas and Sherman fabs in Texas.
According to a report from local news outlet KXII, the announcement was made on September 25, with around 400 employees expected to be impacted by the job cuts resulting from the closure of the company’s 150mm wafer fabs in the state.
– Texas Instruments
An anonymous employee told KXII that workers had previously been told that, if they helped close down the old fabs, they would be prioritized for jobs at the new 300mm facilities, which form part of the company’s plans to invest more than $60 billion in constructing seven chip fabs across Texas and Utah.
These include "mega-sites" in Sherman and Richardson, Texas, and Lehi, Utah, with $40 billion of the investment earmarked for the Sherman site. While the SM1 and SM2 fabs on the site are close to completion, SM3 and SM4 are still in the planning stages and will be built to accommodate future demand.
The Sherman facilities are expected to produce 65nm - 130nm essential chips, while the Lehi site will produce 28nm - 65nm analog and embedded processing chips.
In January 2025, the outgoing Biden administration finalized its CHIPS and Science Act agreement with Texas Instruments, awarding the company $1.61 billion to support its proposed investment project, totaling $18 billion when the agreement was signed.
The company also announced in August that it would be expanding its partnership with Apple, committing to support additional tool installations at its Lehi and Sherman facilities.
When approached by KXII for comment regarding the layoffs, Texas Instruments said in a statement: “We regularly look at how we can operate more efficiently and best support the company’s long-term strategy. As a result, we made some organizational changes last week that impacted some of our employees. These changes include reaching the final steps of our planned, multi-year transition to close our remaining 150-millimeter facilities in Dallas and Sherman.
"These are difficult decisions, and our priority is to support our long-term employees through these changes. TI’s long-term commitment to North Texas, including our investments in our newest factories in Sherman, remains unchanged."
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Thought they spending 60Bn on job creation?
Texas Instruments has informed employees of upcoming layoffs at its Dallas and Sherman fabs in Texas.
According to a report from local news outlet KXII, the announcement was made on September 25, with around 400 employees expected to be impacted by the job cuts resulting from the closure of the company’s 150mm wafer fabs in the state.
– Texas Instruments
An anonymous employee told KXII that workers had previously been told that, if they helped close down the old fabs, they would be prioritized for jobs at the new 300mm facilities, which form part of the company’s plans to invest more than $60 billion in constructing seven chip fabs across Texas and Utah.
These include "mega-sites" in Sherman and Richardson, Texas, and Lehi, Utah, with $40 billion of the investment earmarked for the Sherman site. While the SM1 and SM2 fabs on the site are close to completion, SM3 and SM4 are still in the planning stages and will be built to accommodate future demand.
The Sherman facilities are expected to produce 65nm - 130nm essential chips, while the Lehi site will produce 28nm - 65nm analog and embedded processing chips.
In January 2025, the outgoing Biden administration finalized its CHIPS and Science Act agreement with Texas Instruments, awarding the company $1.61 billion to support its proposed investment project, totaling $18 billion when the agreement was signed.
The company also announced in August that it would be expanding its partnership with Apple, committing to support additional tool installations at its Lehi and Sherman facilities.
When approached by KXII for comment regarding the layoffs, Texas Instruments said in a statement: “We regularly look at how we can operate more efficiently and best support the company’s long-term strategy. As a result, we made some organizational changes last week that impacted some of our employees. These changes include reaching the final steps of our planned, multi-year transition to close our remaining 150-millimeter facilities in Dallas and Sherman.
"These are difficult decisions, and our priority is to support our long-term employees through these changes. TI’s long-term commitment to North Texas, including our investments in our newest factories in Sherman, remains unchanged."
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