DALLAS, Texas — Texas Instruments Inc. plans to break ground mid-November on a $3 billion wafer fab complex for processing 300-mm diameter wafers in Richardson, Texas, the company said Monday (Oct. 25).
The move confirms earlier reports that Texas Instruments planned to bring the start of construction forward from 2005 to some time before the end of 2004.
No timescale was given for completion of what is believed will become TI's DMOS7 wafer fab.
The 92-acre site, announced as the planned location in June 2003, is expected to cost $3 billion over a multi-year period and to employ up to 1,000 people when fully staffed.
TI intends to build chips using 65-nanometer (nm) manufacturing process technology on 300-mm silicon wafers when the facility's clean room is completed, the company said.
Last week as part of a conference call held to discuss TI's financial results TI revealed it is in the process of ramping up its 90-nm technology in no less than four fab sites.
"Texas Instruments is one of the few remaining semiconductor companies still able to leverage the significant advantages that come with closely linking our chip design activity with manufacturing and process technology development," said Rich Templeton, TI president and chief executive officer. "Our commitment to move forward with the new fab in Richardson attests to the strength of TI and our customers as we focus on the communication and entertainment-centric chip products driving the modern electronics era."
The selection of Richardson as the location for the plant was the result of collaboration between TI, the State of Texas, the University of Texas and several local governmental and economic development entities. To continue investment in the region's technological future, more than $300 million in funding from a combination of private and public sources will be directed to the Erik Jonsson School of Engineering and Computer Science at the University of Texas at Dallas (UTD). A portion of the funding will come from the Texas Enterprise Fund established by the Texas Legislature for economic development, infrastructure, community development, job training programs and business incentives.
The fabrication facility, or "fab", will be the centerpiece of over a million square feet of planned office, manufacturing and support space that includes a clean room measuring more than 220,000 square feet.
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