Gov. Abbott Awards Texas Instruments $33.6M Grant For Major Richardson Expansion - Dallas Express

Texas Governor Greg Abbott announced that Texas Instruments (TI) will receive a $33.6 million grant to support a major expansion of its semiconductor manufacturing facility in Richardson. The project,... Read original →

The $33.6M Texas grant to TI isn’t just local economic policy—it’s a strategic move to anchor analog semiconductor capacity on U.S. soil. Expanding its 300mm RFAB will force upstream equipment and materials suppliers to accelerate process compatibility, particularly in deposition and etch. Yet compliance burdens are mounting: CHIPS Act ‘guardrails’ increasingly restrict collaboration with advanced nodes in Taiwan, China and mainland China, eroding supply chain agility. Competitors like Infineon and Renesas will likely counter by fast-tracking secondary fabs in Mexico or Southeast Asia to hedge geopolitical exposure. Over the next 18 months, a ‘secure analog corridor’ will emerge across Texas and the Midwest—but soaring fab costs and talent shortages may constrain output, pushing industrial and automotive chip prices upward despite nominal capacity gains.