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A US$650m expansion of Coherent's semiconductor manufacturing campus in Sherman, Texas has broken ground, with plans to double the site's production space and create more than 1,000 jobs. The project expands an existing 700,000 square-foot facility that was originally built as a silicon wafer fab by Texas Instruments, before being acquired by Finisar in 2017 and eventually passing to Coherent thr

Coherent Breaks Ground on Expanded Texas Facility, Scaling AI’s Optical Backbone Coherent’s expansion at its Sherman, Texas, campus scales what it calls the world’s first volume production 6-inch indium phosphide fab, a key supplier across NVIDIA’s AI stack. June 16, 2026 by NVIDIA Newsroom 0 Share AI runs at the speed of light. More and more, that light is made in Texas. Coherent broke ground