Texas Instruments has officially opened its $60 billion semiconductor plant in Sherman, Texas, with Apple among the first customers to produce chips at the site.
Texas Instruments starts chip production in the U.S.
The facility is the first of four new fabs in Sherman and part of a seven-plant expansion across Texas and Utah. The goal is to provide manufacturers with a U.S. source of critical chips that, until now, were mostly made overseas.
Apple confirmed it will manufacture “critical foundation semiconductors” for iPhone and other devices at the new plant. The chips aren’t the high-performance processors designed in Cupertino but smaller analog and embedded components that manage power, sensors, and signals.
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