How Texas Became The American Chipmaking Hub

[@willz229]

An interesting fact that wasn't mentioned was that Morris Chang, the godfather of the modern-day fab operation, was rebuked from becoming the CEO of Texas Instruments (1985). Instead went back to Taiwan and founded TSMC.

[@yuegonghuamei6685]

Most American inventions are from Asian Chinese Korean Korean Vietnamese Indian immigrants but US medias portray like white inventions then whyte so smart why need Asians for pay high wage n nearby Asiantowns Chinatown for instead in Midwest central south inland empire whyte regions in western n eastern coasts. AmeriK KKa is way fall behind Asian industry in high tech electronic car EV chip med. Kakakak Kakakak.

[@yenpham-jb4wo]

Damn that’s sweet revenge

[@lucoakanrogithe2ahashira509]

Is that pro or anti Texas?

[@danielmisgana2672]

Fellow John Coogan fan I see 😏

[@windcold4532]

Morris Chang was born in Zhejiang Province, China. He had never been to Taiwan before the age of 50. It is not accurate to use [back to Taiwan]. should use [go to Taiwan]

[@El.Duder-ino]

US made a smart move on manufacturing chips back home... its quite logical as its a birthplace of transistor and most of the advanced chip making designs.

[@rhysioeren3203]

😂, the industry does not own everything to the US. Take that idea away from your head.

[@El.Duder-ino]

@@rhysioeren3203 I didn't say that "industry owns everything to the US", stop twisting my words and get real! Maybe u should read comments first before u provide stupid trolling reply! World certainly doesn't need another "wanna be" troll and if u want to be one u should do a better job punk! U r fricken real as your fake profile!

[@davepilsner2269]

What will these chips be used in, if China can make better chips cheaper at home without having to pay for shipping?

[@pradeep128]

@@rhysioeren3203it doesn’t owe anything to your country either, so shut up.

[@akapasokopo]

@@davepilsner2269 yeah, but here's the thing, china cannot.

[@kineticstar]

2nd biggest state. I'm a Texan but I'm pretty sure Alaska wouldn't appreciate you not acknowledge that it is bigger. Also, outside of the US TI calculators are not a players in the world market; Casio is the most used math tool.

[@Azizi316]

TI calculators are still widely used nonetheless

[@williamh.gatesiii8183]

It's NBC (GE), so....

[@umeramjad9968]

😢😢😢😢😢😢😢😢😅

[@reel1tv587]

Yeah them snubbing Alaska like that irritated me too. If they couldn't get that small detail right l, then how can I trust anything else they're saying.

[@tiefblau2780]

That Tex? that want to detached due to some *Ned* *Kruise?* was it? Do you really want to make this into a Hub? *Kinda* *like* *putting* *a* *ling* *on* *something* *that* *will* *sayDivorceLateR.* Why not put it at *Kaliforni?* close to the beach for *Exports...*

[@ssotkow]

This CNBC reporter (Katie Tarasov?) has churned out top notch video updates on the semiconductor industry (history, the major players, and suppliers). Keep it up, and well done!

[@brodriguez11000]

Asianometry does a good job as well.

[@Donkeyearsa]

What the US needs to do is to bring home the production of exotic metals so china cant blackmail the US for the raw materials to make the most advanced chips and other advanced tech. As for Texas it needs to go all in with molten salt nuclear reactors and to really upgrade its electric distribution infrastructure.

[@FINSuojeluskunta]

Their privatized grid is a nightmare. Crypto companies are scamming consumers due to mismanagement

[@kevinabate6056]

How many Superfund sites does it take to change a lightbulb?

[@marvelv212]

Americans like you can’t compete is the real problem

[@Commandoj251]

Look up TMRC in west Texas.

[@keeganbrown9967]

Kinda disappointing that my hometown of San Antonio hasn't seen the benefits of this Chip making boom. We seriously need to step up our game!!

[@funkybunbun3111]

nobody care about yalls big women down in san antonio and that green musty ass river

[@FreeTheOne]

Agreed SA resident here. "No one wants to work anymore." Is realistically, "no one wants to hire anymore."

[@ryanupchurch9683]

San Antonio doesn’t need it. It’s got plenty of military monies. Plus the best Tex mex. And the churro loving big ole women

[@Sammysk8s]

All we can do to get our hands on it is by focusing on the underground bullet train system

[@antihypocrisy8978]

I hear San Antonio women love chips. Just not this kind.

[@kathrynoneill81]

Go USA! We Canadians want to trade with our neighbour, NOT a communist nation with zero respect for basic human rights.

[@mayoz99]

It would be CNBC that can't even get the biggest state right.

[@albear972]

Alaska is the biggereer state than Tejas. You should know that

[@VictorDomonik]

Since when is Texas America's biggest state? Does Alaska not exist?

[@exorcists]

I'm sure she was reffering to Texas as the biggest state *in* the US.

[@aaryankumar8770]

​@@exorcistsalaska is also IN the US Texas is the biggest in the lower 48 states

[@sergiosilva7528]

@@exorcists LOL OMG!

[@exorcists]

@@aaryankumar8770 referring to MAINLAND US

[@tickboy4229]

Texas is the biggest state if you take the average of largest state by population and largest state by land area. So it depends on how you define biggest.

[@KyudoKun]

It's crazy that both US and China are at Chip wars, even though they could've just buy more of them in Grocery stores.

[@CausticLemons7]

Are they also called potato chips in China? I know the Brits say crisps.

[@AdamBechtol]

@@CausticLemons7 I suspect they are called by a Chinese name in China.

[@CausticLemons7]

@@AdamBechtol Haha fair but I meant is it the same kind of description like chip or crisp?

[@TheXZ111]

it's kinda cringe and dry

[@leanlifer]

@@CausticLemons7 potato slices if translated into English word by word

[@dirtmoney8740]

I Worked for SAS and I have to say it’s quite the process to get the wafers built. The logistics and everything that goes into it is very interesting. I would definitely consider going back to work in the manufacturing world.

[@ridwanomar5351]

You can go back to work as a consultant Company owner.

[@whatsyourdream]

Nobody makes chips like Texas. Nobody!

[@dirtmoney8740]

@@whatsyourdream for sure the whole country side in my area is growing due to all the work Samsung and other semiconductor companies are bringing in.

[@Guitardudeftw]

@@whatsyourdreamexcept Taiwan

[@TheVanillaChapstick]

how did you like working there?

[@sayantan777]

To support the manufacturing , Texas should build at least 20GW of clean Nuclear Power Plant.

[@Penultimeat]

I would love that, but I don’t think the oil lobbyists will allow it.

[@sharpasacueball]

@@Penultimeat Yeah oil and gas companies have a very strong interest in Texas

[@roseliam4442]

Mr L.J Sevin was one of the founders of TI. I was his nurse in his last days and he was such as amazing, kind, successful and insightful man

[@ph11p3540]

One thing those fabs will need is super reliable power grids. A single fab power outage for just a few minutes is measured in tens of millions of dollars. There is a lot of parts inside those fabs that take damage when they lose power. It's all about thermal equilibrium of key working parts and avoiding uneven thermal dimensional changes measured in angstroms.

[@fringe_minority]

I have no idea if that's true but I trust you

[@ss-fc2fh]

If only they installed backup gen

[@nicholaslayton6199]

​@@ss-fc2fhthere's no backup for that kind of power need

[@jerbear97]

@@nicholaslayton6199 yes there is, another whole power grid

[@davekropp8773]

They have their own power generation at TI.

[@louie115]

great reporting. as a texas native this is great for our economy. texas is quickly becoming a tech power house no longer just an energy power house.

[@Bojangleschicken910]

Can you send some of your political leaders to NC to do the same. Were struggling to get basic companies like Home Depot to build warehouses here let alone something in this category.

[@jema5039]

@@Bojangleschicken910Well first you have to sell out your resources & citizens to the highest corporate bidder giving them all the tax benefits they want.

[@PlerbArmy]

Let's just hope all of these tax cuts and what not that's made this possible are worth it and don't bite this state in the ass in the future and undo all of this work.

[@SamHyde-h6n]

​@@jema5039 Giving less resources to the government is a good thing.

[@kv4648]

​​@@SamHyde-h6nreplacing a government who you can elect out with an aristocratic class of companies who can do anything they want isn't going to help you, especially in the long run. I suppose you didn't learn from Reagan, didn't you?

[@portalminer8813]

Jack Kilby of TI was the co-inventor of the integrated along with Robert Noyce on Intel. Kilby made a very crude device while Noyce made a manufacturable version at nearly the same time. Kilby was awarded the Nobel prize which Noyce would have shared had he still been alive at the time. That's why they are considered co-inventors.

[@davepilsner2269]

Living in the past isn't going to sell these chips that are banned in China, the global manufacturer of devices utilizing microchips.

[@roxaskinghearts]

texas is full of cheap labor and cheap land because of how polluted it is hope you dont get anymore moist or youll start to kick up something dangerous

[@srikark3532]

I love Texas, I love America!

[@qjtvaddict]

Good now build infrastructure worthy of American glory

[@captainkirk3000]

​@@qjtvaddict Until Texas has a decent passenger train network it will continue to be a barbaric state

[@Rommie26]

@@qjtvaddictevery infrastructure ranking system I looked up has the U.S in the top 10

[@kv4648]

​@@Rommie26America has the largest economy. The fact that you have to stoop to the top 10 says a lot

[@Rommie26]

@@kv4648 we (the U.S.) have a large country It’s easy to have great infrastructure when you have countries the size of New York

[@Roscn-dn36]

Texas GOP who voted against president Biden’s ‘Chips and Science Act’ now all want to get credit for this.😂 15:18 Greg Abbott should start his interview by thanking Biden first.

[@xorrior4438]

Three words: weak labor laws

[@jeromebarry1741]

Oh? It's actually 4 words. Work or get fired.

[@evtech1192]

New US Semiconductor Projects... Texas: $61 Billion Arizona: $80 Billion

[@jonathancorcoran9427]

Alaska is America's biggest state.

[@Kingme2700]

No one cares about Alaska

[@francoislechanceux5818]

She said second biggest state. Listen again in the first 1 minute of the video

[@lokesh303101]

Yes! Local assembly lines sources locally made chips from Texas.

[@duneWW]

Then the price of all your electronic product using the chips made in US become skyrocketing yet with poor quality

[@Kevin-cw8of]

The logistic hub in Texas is non-existant for this so the cost of these chips will go up. In China everything is strategically placed, meaning everything needed is available to you right there next door.

[@jorgesalazar818]

​@@duneWWChina is already poor quality

[@waydewilson4457]

@@jorgesalazar818I don’t agree. My iphone is pretty good.

[@jorgesalazar818]

@@waydewilson4457Your iphone is good due to stringent American standards that Apple has set.

[@Ohiostategenerationx]

We should had our own chip making all along. Their is no excuse to not already have our own chip making. We should also have our own medicine making as well not be getting it from China. Also our own oil and gas as well. We have enough oil in Alaska alone to supply all of the U.S. For over 100 years.

[@In20xx]

National Chips Act, thanks President Biden!

[@GarrettGuerra]

Lmao clearly you have no idea what National CHIPS Act is

[@HiHo-zh4rd]

​@@GarrettGuerrawhat is it?

[@nedcpa]

The state of Texas is expected to receive $1.4 billion from the CHIPS and Science Act. This money will be used to support semiconductor research and manufacturing in the state.

[@JakoWako]

@@HiHo-zh4rd The CHIPS and Science Act provides $52.7 billion for American semiconductor research, development, manufacturing, and workforce development. This includes $39 billion in manufacturing incentives, including $2 billion for the legacy chips used in automobiles and defense systems, $13.2 billion in R&D and workforce development,and $500 million to provide for international information communications technology security and semiconductor supply chain activities. It also provides a 25 percent investment tax credit for capital expenses for manufacturing of semiconductors and related equipment.

[@hamedismaeal1288]

@@GarrettGuerranah actually we do Thanks to president Biden 🎉

[@dboogeman2002]

Well, if the main reason for the prices of cars and trucks to go from $30000 up to $80000 was because micochips were so expensive, then the prices will go back down now that Texas is making the chips right? Wrong. Once manufacturers realize they can get a certain amount of money for something they will never go back down they will refuse. Our government ran the price of cheap $2 cigarette packs up to $8 a pack. A Candy bar now cost you $3. And a vehicle that realistically only costs $12,000 to produce, will cost you 80 Grand.

[@gamefather9105]

Bro cigs have not been $2 since the 90’s.

[@dboogeman2002]

@@gamefather9105 I don't know what you've been smoking but in 2012 I was getting senecas for $2 a pack. Seneca was a very cheap cigarette but just like every other product that sells big in America, they jack the price up on popular items just because they show demand. There was absolutely no true reason for the price to go up the tobacco from that cigarette was coming from here in America. I have been using vuse Alto for a number of years now to stop smoking cigarettes and they used to be about $3 per pod averaged out because the four packs were about $12 now a four pack is 29.00. they were $12 just 3 years ago. They have gone up that much each year. Why? Because people are buying it. There should be laws in place in America to stop people from jacking up prices just because they are selling a lot of it.

[@dboogeman2002]

@@gamefather9105 if the government sees a product that is selling really good they are going to find a way to jack up the price so they can get more tax money from it and that's what they do and there should be laws protecting us from them

[@AndyTN64]

Inflation are the main problem that everything goes up 200%-300% .

[@dboogeman2002]

@@AndyTN64 inflation is a completely made up excuse that big businesses use for why they should make more money.

[@joetrey215]

Perhaps a lesson... [Quote is from Wikipedia for convenience] "SEMATECH was conceived in 1986, formed in 1987, and began operating in Austin, Texas in 1988 as a partnership between the United States government and 14 U.S.-based semiconductor manufacturers to solve common manufacturing problems and regain competitiveness for the U.S. semiconductor industry that had been surpassed by Japanese industry in the mid-1980s. SEMATECH was funded over five years by public subsidies coming from the U.S. Department of Defense via the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) for a total of $500 million. Following a determination by SEMATECH Board of Directors to eliminate matching funds from the U.S. government after 1996, the organization's focus shifted from the U.S. semiconductor industry to the larger international semiconductor industry, abandoning the initial U.S. government-initiative."

[@GeliCarlosJ]

All well and good till their grid fails again and/or they run out of water

[@georgelowe8583]

The Governor is selling a pipe dream. Most of the fab photo are from Applied Materials, who relocated there when TI move to Sunnyvale, Ca. So these new companies are going to have a problem when the winter in Texas causes huge power outages.

[@12SlimJims]

I live in Texas but Arizona will always be a second home close to my heart. Glad to see both Texas and Arizona are benefitting from this boom!

[@njonjokibera9587]

I would like to see Oklahoma Colorado New Mexico and probably the south east states benefiting from this chip manufacturing boom. Texas and Arizona has done pretty good with this boom.

[@USAads2023]

Alaska is USA biggest state

[@emmanueltrejo4226]

We’re talking about states that matter

[@USAads2023]

@@emmanueltrejo4226 for that then California

[@stephenchen856]

To correct the narrator: the transistor was invented in Bell Labs in Murray Hill, New Jersey, not California.

[@jasperzanjani]

thank you Captain Wikipedia

[@chicago9458]

Haha you posted and watched more then edited. You couldn’t wait … 😂

[@Toxic9813]

not for long! Columbus Ohio coming after that crown. Intel's new plant is 6 fabs

[@blackjackpinoko]

Fast forward, how is Intel doing in 2024? LOL

[@cooley987]

Thank you Joe Biden for the Chips Act 😁

[@rs6730]

It was a storm that happens once every hundred years. Texas power Grid is better than most in the country. To deal with the heat.

[@sleekblackroadster]

Texas was also just your worst state to live in.

[@devinbutler3271]

Arizona seems to be if you’re asking me

[@wpmccray1]

Bell Labs was in NJ, not California. And Alaska is bigger than Texas.

[@obijuan3004]

Arizona, is leading the US in Chip making. INTEL, TSMC, and a dozen more. This is a Texas advertisement.

[@caesar8955]

Good. Texas pride worldwide ❤

[@chrisperry9002]

Most Texans can't spell or compose a sentence properly. But they're trusted to make computer chips. Yeah,right. This won't end well.😢😢😮😮😮

[@JRay2113]

Texas (and SxSW) has always been the leader in semiconductor fab in the US. You're just waking up to it now.

[@swapshots4427]

Massive National security isue as well. Imagine tRump recognizing, understanding, acknowleging , and acting on that.

[@Killaogbobbyj]

Thank you .. about time. When I found out … most of the chip came from overseas. I was like why would you put America in that situation?

[@rstar591]

Because I knew people who died of cancer from manufacturing chips...which seems to failed to have been mentioned. There was a large lawsuit against the companies for the families who lost their husbands from semiconductor development (top engineers at the time). They had no idea in the 70s-80s the health hazard at the time until afterwards. They moved it overseas for "our" safety and employed " disposable" people who can be trained to do a specific task instead to manufacture it. They no longer employ actual engineers and rather protect them by keeping them on a different campus instead. I personally kept my godsister company growing up while she watched her Dad slowly die from the cancer. He was a brilliant man but the payout they won ($1 million per family or about 5-10 year salary replacement) was not enough to replace the pain she had to go through knowing her entire childhood, her father was going to die from building computer chips.

[@davepilsner2269]

Well what devices other than weapon systems use microchips in US manufacturing? It's not like the US is a hot bed industrial innovation. 😂

[@pradeep128]

@@davepilsner2269of course it is. USA is the second largest manufacturer on the planet, unless your Chinese, USA is far ahead of your country.

[@dnsjtoh]

This video is misleading. TSMC is planning to charge a 30% premium for semiconductors made in the US. It will never take off.

[@rubinkatz9850]

ASML EUV systems do not *etch* wafers as claimed - instead they pattern photoresist on wafers which can go to etchers as next move - or to ion implant.

[@dwayne9959]

Whenever politicians speak especially about self interest, I feel they are misleading or outright lying.

[@ayayoutuber]

look at russia...no chip, no making new weapon.

[@Continentalmunkey88]

(Texas instruments, semiconductor) 4:16 Hyundai maritime primer for local, but global needs no explanation and lower energy needs from compute reduces load on NATO-crown panes load shedding

[@brannon1221]

Watching the world change from the perspective of a Texan is pretty exciting. Texas has so much going on right now everywhere you look. Feels like I have a window seat on a rocket ship. TO THE MOON!

[@davekropp8773]

And the majority of Texas house and Senate voted against the Chips bill.

[@jacknimble4584]

They voted against the Chips bill since they were taking cues from CNBC that both Texas and Florida are horrible states filled with racists.

[@lechefski]

@@davekropp8773 That's really interesting, why did they vote against?

[@straighttalk2069]

The politicians in Texas are complete morons they've banned the sale of Tesla cars direct to customers because they want to prop up the dealership model. Luckily Elon Musk has still built the Texas Gigafactory the largest Tesla factory yet.

[@MrDisgruntledGamer1]

@@lechefski because Republicans hate anything that resembles silicon valley or Califoria

[@kalasend]

What happened to Arizona now? TSMC Phoenix?

[@m-jay356]

About time we bring chips back home to Texas!

[@Continentalmunkey88]

0:53 yeah, but state doesnt want to overload the one state that oiled the grease 4descendents but GPS & snowden complicated

[@davidlguerr]

Can't they reuse the water? Or can it be used to irrigate crops?

[@davekropp8773]

It's recycled internally.

[@James-bs8bd]

They have basically no water for crops. They get a lot of subsidy money for keeping trying to grow anyways.

[@dixter1652]

three different water supplies... there is DI water that is reused, there is process water and it gets treated and flushed and there is cooling water that is reused

[@prp3858]

A republican state

[@koshobai]

Texas is the largest state in the contiguous US. Maybe that should be the clarification everyone in the comments wants to see.

[@swapshots4427]

BUT with that said, you can thank Biden for all the incentives and JOBS.!

[@funtechu]

People have no concept of how important TI is for electronics. They make many of the common jellybean parts used in most designs, as well as many PMICs, and ADCs. It would be difficult to build a design *without* at least one TI part.

[@100pyatt]

#RED_STATES ♥️ Businesses ♥️ , Profit 💵 and Prosperity 💵 ♥️

[@faithstraham]

Love what Plano is doing.😊

[@UmmYeahOk]

lol, yeah, Frito-Lay FTW! They’ve got all the chips!

[@dixter1652]

Plano is not doing anything... besides wasting your property taxes...

[@jesusvazquez326]

Sherman is a horrible city to put TI, it’s literally the hood and TI only hires bachelors grads so its not even beneficial for the people who live there lol

[@pauldannelachica2388]

The new gold of the Modern Age advance microchips.

[@CityDude72]

I wonder what they do with all the toxic waste produced by making these chips? Lol.

[@HeadStronger-HS]

Maybe now we can take the time to train and hire Americans so they can support their families.

[@honkhonk8009]

Hopefully. Problem is most Americans are lazy and dont want to work the long and grueling hours required to stay ahead of the game. Texas is hopefully gonna be different. Texas got alot of hardworking people with pride.

[@jeffrhorer1811]

Bribes. Money. It sure wasn't for a stable reliable power grid.

[@Ayo22210]

I think someone should create a world class Private University in the Dallas or Austin area. Call it National Tech

[@abimbolaalexander2826]

Dallas and Austin already have UT Dallas and UT Austin

[@Ayo22210]

@@abimbolaalexander2826 yeah it looks like Austin could benefit from a prestigious private engineering university

[@drfarrin]

@@Ayo22210 make it public. The more people who can get in, the more skilled labor we have. Private universities can turn anyone away for any reason. ESPECIALLY religious reasons. Public universities can't. If you qualify, you're in. UT and UH don't care about gender, skin color, background, wealth, or religion. They care if you can do the job. Baylor (private) will deny you your degree because you didn't go to church enough (wife went there, she knows people who went through that despite trying to get a science based degree).

[@Ayo22210]

@@drfarrin I was thinking more like an MIT that isn’t religious. I didn’t know that about the religious universities. Brittany Griner went there so I thought they’d let anyone in.

[@flydragon7256]

DalTech

[@inthedarkwoods2022]

Moving Chips production to America so China can invade Taiwan

[@jg5875]

Love seeing chip building staying in the US (and esp out of China!)

[@alfredocorleone9068]

Bye bye silicon valley. Thank your democrat leaders

[@drealist]

All I heard was "Real Estate in those communities is going higher"

[@iiio12]

Going green in the largest oil-producing region in the world - no doubt

[@ajford-arausa8328]

To give people a idea how big Texas is El Paso is closer to LA than it is to are Texas own capital and

[@silverbiocide]

I love working in Texas, bu I will never raise a family in this state.

[@VNtheOnly]

Too hot

[@ryanb9038]

Nvidia???? Helloooo?? Lower your gpu prices now????

[@theWACKIIRAQI]

Good for Texas and the US

[@subtitelingyou]

Good target for CHINA and RUssia:).

[@LokoGee]

Texas is a garbage state.

[@bobbrown8661]

Basically California scared all the tech companies off.

[@CEA9234]

Basically electrical engineers should live in texas

[@honkhonk8009]

Engineers and STEM in general. Commiefornia is hostile to hard working people.

[@peteharper3614]

Now probably wouldn't be the best time to point out that TIs biggest assembly and test operations are in China and the Philippines. TI has almost no assembly and test capability in the USA. All those TI Texas wafers are headed to Asia. Until we bring assembly and test back to the USA we are still dependent on China.

[@afroabroad]

Thanks for pointing that out.

[@timothybaker8234]

The worlds oldest continuously operating chip fab plant is here In South Portland, Maine.

[@texan-american200]

Ok... So what's the name of this corporation?

[@Nick-xc4fy]

The most pointless flex.

[@timothybaker8234]

@@texan-american200 it started out as Fairchild Camera. It has been sold a few times since. Was National Semiconductor, TI, and a couple others. It’s split in two now. Currently one is Diodes, the other is On I believe.

[@areyes4142]

Maine?? Lol, lmao even 😂

[@Whatta33]

Long live Republic of Texas

[@aryaman05]

Where's the 'chip' labor for this gonna come from ?😊

[@lembafranck3490]

immigrattion h1B VISAS

[@siddharthgoyal4008]

As a software engr. there is no shortage of Cali people wanting to move out due to taxes. You don't even have grocery stores in lower SF anymore.!

[@BT-qs7id]

Lol 🤣 wonder what ALTERNATE universe this person lives in......ohhhhh yeah migrant workers both legal and illegal is the labor answer

[@0x1EGEN]

Most modern chip fabs are almost entirely automated now. Really the only human labor needed is for quality control.

[@emmanueltrejo4226]

Robots

[@patricks8364]

Water. I don’t understand this part why TSM is building big fab in Arizona where water source is very limited.

[@joetrey215]

Saudi and UAE corporations grow alfalfa in AZ because there is plenty of cheap water.

[@ambition112]

0:00: 🏭 Texas is becoming a major hub for chip manufacturing, attracting big chip giants and investments. 3:31: 🏭 Texas is becoming a major hub for chip manufacturing, with companies like TI and Samsung expanding their operations in the state. 6:23: 💡 Texas aims to become a major player in chip manufacturing to reduce reliance on Asia and enhance national security. 9:12: 🏭 Texas continues to be a hub for automotive chip manufacturing, with companies like Infineon, NXP Semiconductors, X-Fab, Samsung, and Applied Materials expanding their operations in the state. 12:21: 💧 Taiwan-based GlobalWafers is investing $5 billion to build the country's largest silicon wafer factory in Sherman, Texas, chosen for its access to water resources. 14:58: 💡 Texas chip companies face challenges with power outages, chip shortage, and declining sales, but are investing in renewable energy and expanding production. Recap by Tammy AI

[@conc3rn3d]

Wanker

[@JB-qt3wo]

Thank god for gregg abbot!! He’s bringing in 200,000 people a month into Texas!! I can’t wait to be able to hire them for less money than i’m paying my native workers!! I love it! Luckily i live in a gated community so I won’t have to deal with the crime. Man it’s nice to be Rich. Thanks Gregg!!

[@lcxb8575]

These factories wouldn't be in Texas if it weren't for government subsidies. Tax breaks, tax money funded giveaways to highly successful companies, etc. No wonder our property taxes are so much higher.

[@JB-qt3wo]

@@lcxb8575 Yeah and most of the jobs don’t go to native Texans they bring in people from out of state or out of the country. Why? Because they know they’ll buy houses and pay property tax and increase the tax rolls. State doesn’t have to worry about investing money in training or education for native Texans, let that happen elsewhere. On a national level, the Federal government is doing the same thing by allowing* literally hundreds of thousands of people per month into the country in order increase the tax base because they desperately need that tax revenue to pay the interest on the government debt to the tune of over $1 Trillion per year. The initial sunk cost of paying for these illegal immigrants is estimated to be around $450 Billion per year, or roughly 50% of the military budget, and that’s just the illegals let in this year alone. I suppose the government is playing a long game where they are attempting to avoid a situation 10-20 years from now where complete insolvency is an inevitability. This means that we’ll likely see 3 Million or more immigrants per year enter the US for the next 5-10 years as long as we have a continuity of crooked administrations. There are economic and social engineering reasons for this. The former is used to justify the latter and vice versa. If you talk to “conservatives” they’ll justify immigration by saying we’re a nation of immigrants, we need the cheap labor, these people do jobs others won’t, etc. They think all these people are coming across the border to clean houses. Maybe some of them, are but as seen recently a lot of these people are from Asia, Africa, and the Middle East. When you see hordes of Military aged single men coming across the border, it really makes you start to fear that perhaps there is a more nefarious agenda at play. The extremely ODIOUS radicals on the left, such as Frances Fox-Piven (Look her up) claps their hands with joy as millions of non-anglo Europeans cross the border into the US, because they truly believe, that “Whiteness” is a social construct that must be destroyed. They believe that the anglo-European tradition, when allowed to flourish, inevitably leads to the gates of Auschwitz. Your nuclear family=Nazism. Your pretty feminine daughter who goes to Church and sings in the Choir=Nazism. Celebrating Christian values and upholding them=Nazism. It isn’t as bad as you fear..it’s worse. They hate us. They hate white Americans, and most of all, they hate Christians. Why do you think it is then, that when a girl gets gang r*ped and murdered by brown immigrants in Europe, that 8 of the 9 men who CONFESSED to the crime, walk free? It’s because that is the intended result, and that is the future America faces. Our children will be subject to all manner of abuse, violence, and discrimination not because radical leftists don’t realize that is the unintended consequence of their policy, but because that is the intended result. So many smart white Americans have quietly fled to mountainous regions of the country, hoping to hide from this reality while also being able to maintain plausible deniability of the notion that they may be some sort of vile racists. The truth is, they can run but they can’t hide. The spine of this nation has been broken. I don’t blame people for running, but at a certain point, we will have to fight back.

[@beyondfossil]

They need to start adding solar panels on those massive foundry rooftops. Also huge parking lot area too. Such a huge wasted potential looking at those bare rooftops. Can run the whole facility on sunshine during daytime with potentially big energy exports to grid for credit or saved to local battery to help with night operations. Running on solar also takes a big load off the grid since these chip foundry factories are power hungry. Exporting surplus energy to the grid also reduces load on the regional grid and can power local communities directly in times of extended Texas heatwaves which will become more frequent.

[@WorldIsWierd]

Texas is already one of the greenest states without inefficient planning like this

[@beyondfossil]

@@WorldIsWierd What specifically?

[@beyondfossil]

​@@WorldIsWierd True Texas has surprisingly a lot of renewables for a such a traditionally oil based economy - especially wind. Texas renewables are growing fast. But currently some 60% of the state's annual electrical generation is fossil fuel based with some 10% of that being the dirtiest coal/lignite. Critically, residential/commercial solar *unloads* the grid and the grid is expected to be a major obstacle towards the much needed electrification of our society. Simply put, every watt generated & consumed locally is a watt that does _not_ stress a distant power plant nor the grid to transmit that watt. There is huge efficiency in that alone. As we're in midst of an unrelenting heatwave, I'll point out heatwaves always come with abundant sunshine. So solar panels will excel during the hottest hours of the day. The greater the percentage of residences, factories & commercial buildings that have solar then the greater the load is taken off the grid at _exactly_ a time when the grid experiences its _maximum_ stress. There's so much sunshine in a heatwave that a home could power its own loads (include A/C) and partially power their neighbor's with surplus too. Finally, it needs to be said that the cosmically large sun provides millions of times more energy per day than we could ever use. Huge factory and commercial rooftops are ideal locations to maximize land use efficiency. Onsite power generation is one of the most efficient ways to use that free god given clean power directly. Furthermore, sunshine cannot be taxed, sanctioned, embargoed or blockaded.

[@SWLinPHX]

Plenty of sun (and heat) here in Phoenix with solar panels all around the new TSMC fab megacomplex.

[@beyondfossil]

​@@SWLinPHX Excellent, most excellent! Drone aerial view: kzbin.info/www/bejne/mmO8mmSIaK-ej7c Apart from the obvious benefits, what better way for a public display of a silicon fabrication factory's undying love for silicon than with 15 *megawatts* of electricity producing silicon right on site? The employees will be loving the shade for their vehicles too. Plenty of remaining rooftop area and other parking lots to have some 10× more solar power onsite. ☀⚡

[@lachee3055]

its sad this achievement is overshadowed by their misogyny, transphobia, and barbaric beliefs their lawmakers have.

[@deprogramm]

Yawn

[@bobhuang94]

Wasn't TI one of the main bottlenecks in analog and legacy chip production during the chip shortage? Chip wafer production was a major bottleneck, but leading edge fabs from TSMC, Samsung, and Intel were able to keep up with demand for advanced chips outside of GPUs due to the cryptocurrency mining craze.

[@JohnDoe-qz1ql]

So you're saying One company created the shortage? Seemed pretty severe to Me!

[@ILoveTinfoilHats]

You forgot some context there. They were able to keep up with advanced semiconductors *because they cut many of the less advanced ones.* That's where the vehicle chip shortage came from. Most cars, with the exception of a few more tech focused ones like Tesla, use the equivalent of an old phone ARM chip.

[@damonkatos4271]

None of the wafer fabs shut down in Texas

[@xungnham1388]

TSMC and Samsung are also legacy chip producers; that's actually the majority of their production. You have it all wrong, all fabs were operating at capacity. It wasn't a chip shortage; it was a demand surge; however many chips were anticipated to be produced were produced. The auto industries supply problems was their own doing. At the onset of the pandemic, they cut their orders. When they realized they would need those supplies again, someone else had already taken their spot in line; the result of just-in-time manufacturing.

[@kwittnebel]

Um, arent they putting in some huge fabs on AZ?

[@rustymu87]

Good job Texas ❤

[@AX-sq5vm]

Good luck Amarica will be rich again

[@RexBennett-w5v]

I wonder why they dont put some of these type of plants in the rust belt. At what point does a state become over loaded. Issues like water, man power, housing.

[@Kevin-oj2uo]

I think mostly is space and states willing to give tax breaks.

[@krakken-]

Chip manufacturing requires a lot of technical skills that are more available in Texas (and California and a few other states) than the Rust Belt.

[@gc.96]

tax breaks, Texas offers a lot of free money to corporations at the expense of the local taxpayer

[@social3ngin33rin]

"No income tax" sounds good, until you realize that the state has to make up for that tax somewhere....they have much higher "property taxes"

[@ronblack7870]

escept they give these big guys tax breaks which mean they don't pay the high property taxes. it's the sucker workers that do.

[@social3ngin33rin]

@@ronblack7870 yeah, the other home owners and renters who pay for it; but they like thinking to themselves "no income tax." lol The rich definitely benefit the most from it though.

[@LukeRadick]

Pretty sure Alaska is the biggest state. Semantics, I know 😂

[@francoislechanceux5818]

In the video, it said Texas is the second biggest state.

[@truthbetold725]

Save America Texas. 🇺🇸💯

[@HomeAmatuerRacer]

T.I.’s “King” was arguably his best album release ever 👍🏻

[@jerbear97]

yo T.I.'s still around?

[@MrHav1k]

😂😂

[@anonymousperson9735]

No Cap

[@CalvinL.Stevens]

King with P$C ?

[@jaquanpowell4605]

Na that would be Heavy is the head imo

[@jallen1227]

Because CA fumbled badly (and yes, I understand the incredible history of TI).

[@Hub593]

CA did not fumble. The very first statement in the video tells you everything you need to know about why Texas came out on top.

[@lisaroberts8556]

@@Hub593I saw last week…..California lost a ton of new Tech Billionaires. Exiting San Francisco and the entire State of California. One State burdened with Taxes, Over Regulation, Bad Management Green Tyranny. And others like Texas. Less all of those things and more importantly Free. When you force a State to shut down over the Sniffles. Lots of bad things happen. Like the further decline of California. 😮📉

[@markeasley6149]

TI is a sleeper, will be huge in 5 more years.

[@krakken-]

It was huge 30 years ago:). Adding manufacturing to the US won't change it a lot.

[@mikeanderson9266]

Arizona a better fit for chips!

[@GaryHewitt-f6c]

A good report, thanks. Voted up and shared.. Very cool stuff happening in Texas!.

[@waydewilson4457]

Yes Texas is going to be blue state soon. Subsides, which is a liberal policy, is a great start.

[@lil----lil]

Fun Fact: Morris Chang founder of TSMC and world's most advanced and successful chip foundry worked for Texas Instruments for 25 Years!

[@basseymarvellous6094]

Then he stole the Tech to Taiwan the American open society is letting foreigners exploit them

[@Lords1997]

As a New Yorker, I’m perfectly fine with this. Chip manufacturing is energy intensive, and worse yet water draining… I’d rather have Texas destroy itself than New Yorks pristine lakes and waterfront areas.

[@richardconway6425]

Cynical, but understandable point of view.

[@Lords1997]

@@richardconway6425 factual** not cynical… thanks though

[@qjtvaddict]

Yikes😂 somebody has to do it

[@gonzalo4658]

Texas is the shithole for it to happen while the headquarters are in San Francisco and New York . Burning humid sunny shithole

[@Lords1997]

@@qjtvaddict exactly, and better Texas than New York in my opinion given the facts.

[@johnwilliams9498]

These plants use a lot of water i mean a lot.

[@TaiwanNationStatusQuo]

Has TSMC made a bad decision to build fabs in Arizona?

[@johnkeen37]

Because America forced them to fo so