{"id":367351,"date":"2026-07-09T21:04:08","date_gmt":"2026-07-09T21:04:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/367351\/"},"modified":"2026-07-09T21:04:08","modified_gmt":"2026-07-09T21:04:08","slug":"texas-instruments-gets-34m-state-grant-for-richardson-semiconductor","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/367351\/","title":{"rendered":"Texas Instruments gets $34M state grant for Richardson semiconductor"},"content":{"rendered":"

The state of Texas has awarded a $34 million grant to Texas Instruments<\/a> for an expansion of the company\u2019s semiconductor wafer production site in Richardson, Gov. Greg Abbott\u2019s office announced Thursday.\u00a0<\/p>\n

Texas Instruments\u2019 Richardson facility produces 300 mm wafers \u2014 or the largest type of the silicon wafers used to create the semiconductors that serve as the building blocks of modern electronic devices ranging from medical devices to the computer chips powering AI. Texas Instruments\u2019 Richardson production site, which ranks among the most advanced semiconductor facilities in the world, consists of two connected fabrication plants, or \u201cfabs\u201d The first began production in 2009, and the second began production in 2022<\/a>. \u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n

In a statement, Mohammad Yunus, a TI executive, emphasized the company\u2019s commitment to Texas and praised the new state grant. \u00a0<\/p>\n

\u201cThis award recognizes the investment we have made in our Richardson semiconductor manufacturing facility and reinforces our commitment to producing the foundational technology that is vital for nearly every electronic device, now and for decades to come,\u201d he said.\u00a0<\/p>\n

The $34 million state grant will support TI\u2019s tool installations at the Richardson facility, the company told\u00a0The Dallas Morning News by email, which are part of a $700 million enhancement project. The facility \u201ccontinues to ramp to full production,\u201d the company noted: TI has previously said that the two Richardson plants \u201cwill manufacture more than 100 million analog chips every day that will go into electronics everywhere.\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n

The state grant comes through the Texas Semiconductor Innovation Fund, a program created by lawmakers in 2023 to encourage the state\u2019s burgeoning tech and semiconductor industry. The fund has since received nearly $1 billion in appropriations; earlier this month, it was also used to award $24 million<\/a> to FormFactor, a California-based semiconductor technology company that\u2019s building a new manufacturing facility in Farmers Branch. \u00a0 \u00a0<\/p>\n

Abbott and other politicians have regularly praised the grants as a means to fortify the state\u2019s status as a technology leader.\u00a0<\/p>\n

\u201cTexas is where the integrated circuit was born and where the future is forged,\u201d the governor said in a statement on Thursday. \u201cTexas Instruments is a global trailblazer, and this expansion of their historic, long-term investment in our great state advances Texas\u2019 leadership in semiconductor manufacturing.\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n

Texas Instruments, which traces its history to the 1930s, has since grown into one of the largest semiconductor producers in the world and a major economic driver for North Texas, with locations in Dallas, Richardson and Sherman. The company unveiled its Sherman semiconductor manufacturing facility \u2014 part of a planned $30 billion Grayson County \u201cmegasite\u201d \u2014 at a ribbon cutting ceremony<\/a> in December.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The state of Texas has awarded a $34 million grant to Texas Instruments for an expansion of the…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":367352,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[15],"tags":[160,162,161],"class_list":["post-367351","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-plano","tag-plano","tag-plano-headlines","tag-plano-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/367351","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=367351"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/367351\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/367352"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=367351"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=367351"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=367351"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}