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Do they actually plan this, or is it just to make the current administration happy? $60B sounds like a lot of money.
by 7thaccount 1y ago
Do they actually plan this, or is it just to make the current administration happy? $60B sounds like a lot of money.
- idiotsecant 1y agoBased on every one of these promises ever, yes. It's probably somewhere between vaporware and a small tertiary facility.
- ashwinsundar 1y agoWhat are some things TI promised on, but failed to deliver?
- Mistletoe 1y agohttps://spectrum.ieee.org/the-inside-story-of-texas-instruments-biggest-blunder-the-tms9900-microprocessor https://spectrum.ieee.org/the-inside-story-of-texas-instrume...
- Retric 1y agoNumber of new jobs for one. They just laid off ~300 people working on an older node in Lehi, Utah, while now claiming they’re going to bring new jobs to Lehi, Utah. Thus “new jobs” don’t really track the actual change in the number of their employees even just at the local level across even moderate timescales. Similarly hyping up total R&D spending without a tight timeframe is meaningless, they will eventually spend X$ assuming the company survives indefinitely. More charitably there’s meaningful differences between nodes, but it’s likely a significant portion of the workforce will be rehires.
- cwal37 1y agoThey’ve steadily expanded over the years, I wouldn’t be surprised if this was real. It’s not just calculators, TI chips show up in a lot of military hardware in particular.
- bigfatkitten 1y agoThere are a lot of markets where TI is king, such as in battery management ICs.
- UncleOxidant 1y agowhich generally cost pennies.
- baq 1y agoIf you want to build a fleet of infantry drones and you want to source components from the US there’s a lot of these and many others to buy. Not sure if there’s $60B of them there but they’ll figure out how to waste this much I’m sure.
- hiddenfinance 1y agoWell if you look at how Feds has being pumping money into Musk's bank account and what brought down the SVB, then $60B may not be that much. At this point as the country that can prints/(adjust db ledger) $60B is nothing.
- wongarsu 1y agoWhich is why they are not planning to make cutting edge semiconductors in the new plant but "foundational semiconductors" aka old nodes that now cost pennies
- duxup 1y agoTheir announcement seems to be a mix of new and already announced expansions.
- acdha 1y agoThey’re making a political advertisement to get favors for things they already did. The meat of the announcement is that the plants started under the Biden administration are continuing as planned – which is an accomplishment of sorts given how complex fabs are – and they’d really like to continue getting the CHIPS act funding which Trump periodically talks about cancelling because it was a Biden-era law even though it had strong support from Republicans who favor investing in important domestic industries, especially in their districts: https://www.texastribune.org/2025/03/12/texas-congress-cornyn-mccaul-trump-chips-act/ https://www.texastribune.org/2025/03/12/texas-congress-corny...