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Texas Instruments Starts Production at Its Sherman SM1 Fab

Starts 12/17/2025

Texas Instruments Sherman site, US-75 at Shepherd Road, Sherman, TX 75090, United States

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TI's news release is dated "17 DEC 2025" and announces that it "begins production at its newest 300mm semiconductor manufacturing facility in Sherman, Texas".^[1]

Start: Dec 17, 202590% CONFIDENCEfrom the source

Texas Instruments Starts Production at Its Sherman SM1 Fab

TI began production at SM1, the first 300mm wafer fab on its site off US-75 at Shepherd Road in Sherman, three and a half years after breaking ground. The site is laid out for up to four connected fabs and is meant to support as many as 3,000 direct jobs; TI is spending more than $60 billion across seven fabs in Texas and Utah.

Texas Instruments announced the start of production at SM1, its new 300mm semiconductor fab in Sherman, Texas, "just three and a half years after breaking ground", in a release dated 17 DEC 2025^[1]
TI leaders were joined by local and state officials at a ribbon-cutting, with TI President and CEO Haviv Ilan, Texas Governor Greg Abbott and Sherman Mayor Shawn Teamann named in the photo captions^[1]
SM1 "will ramp according to customer demand, ultimately producing tens of millions of chips daily" for smartphones, automotive systems, medical devices, industrial robots, smart home appliances and data centres^[1]
The Sherman mega-site "includes future plans for up to four connected wafer fabs that will be constructed and equipped in alignment with market demand" and will support as many as 3,000 direct jobs plus thousands more in support industries^[1]
Sherman is part of TI's broader plan to invest more than $60 billion across seven semiconductor fabs in Texas and Utah, "the largest investment in foundational semiconductor manufacturing in U.S. history", first announced in a release of 18 Jun 2025^[1]
TI describes itself as the largest foundational semiconductor manufacturer in the U.S., making analog and embedded processing chips, with 15 manufacturing sites worldwide and nearly 100 years of history^[1]
Haviv Ilan: the start of production "represents what TI does best: owning every part of the manufacturing process to deliver the foundational semiconductors that are vital for nearly every type of electronic system... We're proud to have called North Texas home for nearly a century"^[1]
The release does not give the site's street location off US-75 at Shepherd Road that the pin's description names^[1]

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TI's news release is dated "17 DEC 2025" and announces that it "begins production at its newest 300mm semiconductor manufacturing facility in Sherman, Texas".

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