Texas Instruments Inc. on Thursday vowed to invest more than $60 billion in domestic semiconductor expansion across seven fabrication plants in Texas and Utah, as President Donald Trump continued to press Apple Inc. and other tech giants to build their products in America.
TI said its commitment, which will result in more than 60,000 jobs, is the “largest investment in foundational semiconductor manufacturing in U.S. history.”
The company — a partner of Apple, NVIDIA Corp. and Ford Motor Co. — said it is working with the Trump administration to pump out chips that power everything from smartphones to data centers and cars domestically at seven new or expanded manufacturing mega-sites.
“TI is building dependable, low-cost 300-millimeter capacity at scale to deliver the analog and embedded processing chips that are vital for nearly every type of electronic system,” Texas Instruments CEO Haviv Ilan said in a statement. The announcement, however, did not include a timeline on the opening of the facilities.
The expansion undertaking comes a few years after the Biden administration devoted billions of dollars to TI and other chip makers through the Chips and Sciences Act (2022). Earlier this month, Commerce Secretary Howard Lutnick said the department is renegotiating some of its contracts.
“President Trump has made it a priority to increase semiconductor manufacturing in America — including these foundational semiconductors that go into the electronics that people use every day,” Lutnick said in a statement. “Our partnership with TI will support U.S. chip manufacturing for decades to come.”
Tech companies already feeling the squeeze from Trump, who continues to also threaten tariffs that could wreak havoc with their supply chains worldwide, applauded TI’s investment pledge.
Apple CEO Tim Cook, whose company says it will spend and invest a record $500 billion in the U.S. over the next four years, said Texas Instruments chips “help bring Apple products to life.” Apple’s massive investment plan includes a new manufacturing facility in Houston to produce servers that support its artificial intelligence (AI) system.
SpaceX Chief Operating Officer Gwynne Shotwell said the company is leveraging TI’s tech in its Starlink satellite internet service.
