New Mega-Chip Factory In Texas? November 23, 2021

Link here.

• first reported by The WSJ, now being reported everywhere:
• still possible that things could change, but it's being reported that today, Tuesday, Texas governor will make announcement
• Samsung
• $17 billion chip plant
• Taylor, TX (see below)
• ten years ago, Samsung would have built this factory in California
  
• from the linked article:

The new plant is set to make advanced logic chips used to power mobile devices and autonomous vehicles, as the global auto industry faces a significant semiconductor shortage.

The factory would mark Samsung's second chip factory in Texas, where it already manufactures chips at a plant in Austin.

Samsung is joining rivals TSMC and Intel in the race to expand chip contract manufacturing in the United States, where the sector is seen as an area of strategic competition with China. U.S. President Joe Biden's administration has promised billions of dollars in federal funding to boost chip manufacturing and research to ensure it has an edge over China in advanced technologies and to address shortages for critical industries like autos.

Chips are followed here:

• Chips: link here. Chips, semiconductor: link here.

Taylor, Texas:

• Round Rock, TX, is directly north of Austin, TX, on I-35
• essentially Texas' Silicon Valley
• Taylor Texas: about 20 miles east of Round Rock, on US-79