Texas Instruments capacity at Sherman, Texas
US Department of Commerce (NIST CHIPS Program Office) on the Sherman, Texas site as the award describes it, across the fabs it funds, stated 2024-08-16. One statement, with the wording it was made in. Nothing here is computed and nothing is added to anything else.
What was stated
Issued 2024-08-16 by US Department of Commerce (NIST CHIPS Program Office) · Biden-Harris Administration Announces Preliminary Terms with Texas Instruments to Expand U.S. Current-Generation and Mature-Node Chip Capacity, 16 August 2024
A planned figure: capacity the publisher said the site is expected to reach. A promise and a measurement are different facts and this record never puts them in one column.
lower bound The publisher stated a floor, not a figure.
No wafer basis, because this figure is not counted in wafers. The unit is chips per day, and it cannot be compared with a wafer figure.
⛔ A DIFFERENT QUANTITY FROM EVERY OTHER FIGURE IN THIS FILE, and the first one here not measured in wafers. Chips per day and wafers per month cannot be converted into one another without knowing die size, yield and product mix, none of which is public, so no surface on this site converts them and a page showing both says in words that they are different quantities. It is recorded because it is the only capacity statement any publisher makes about Sherman, and because a US government award document is a first-party statement about what the money buys. "More than" makes it a lower bound. "Anticipated" makes it planned - the award is preliminary terms, not a measurement of a running fab. NOT RECORDED from the same release: the Lehi, Utah figure, which reads "anticipated to produce tens of millions of chips every day". "Tens of millions" is a magnitude and not a number, and there is no honest value to put in this field for it.
What this figure covers
Publishers state capacity at whatever level suits them: a phase, a site, a joint venture, a company. This one covers the sites below and no others.
The Sherman, Texas site as the award describes it, across the fabs it funds
| Fab | Site | Country | Status |
|---|---|---|---|
| SM1 | Sherman, Texas | US | operating |
| SM2 | Sherman, Texas | US | construction |
This figure is never added to another. This record holds a capacity statement for 2 of the 5 Texas Instruments sites it lists, so a sum of what is here would be a company total built from an incomplete set and published by nobody.
Everything stated about this site
One statement. Nobody has restated it, which is a fact about the publisher rather than a gap in this record.
Cite this
The figure in the publisher's own words, what it covers, the basis it is counted on, and the source. A capacity figure quoted without its basis or its coverage is the failure this block exists to prevent.
For a memo
US Department of Commerce (NIST CHIPS Program Office), planned capacity, the Sherman, Texas site as the award describes it, across the fabs it funds: anticipated production capacity of more than one hundred million chips every day, issued 2024-08-16 (stated as a lower bound). Source: Biden-Harris Administration Announces Preliminary Terms with Texas Instruments to Expand U.S. Current-Generation and Mature-Node Chip Capacity, 16 August 2024, https://www.nist.gov/news-events/news/2024/08/biden-harris-administration-announces-preliminary-terms-texas-instruments. Recorded by Silicon Almanac, which keeps every statement made about this site: https://siliconalmanac.com/figure/fab-capacity/ti-sherman-2024-08-chips/
Everything in one paragraph. There is no earlier statement about this site to carry.
For the bottom of a slide
Source: US Department of Commerce (NIST CHIPS Program Office) (2024-08-16), Biden-Harris Administration Announces Preliminary Terms with Texas Instruments to Expand U.S. Current-Generation and Mature-Node Chip Capacity, 16 August 2024. Figure as published is stated as a lower bound. Statement history: https://siliconalmanac.com/figure/fab-capacity/ti-sherman-2024-08-chips/
One line. The value is deliberately not repeated here: on a slide the number is on the slide, and a footnote that restates it is one edit away from disagreeing with it.
For a spreadsheet
publisher covers kind value_as_published wafer_basis issued qualifiers source_title source_url previous_value previous_issued figure_page retrieved US Department of Commerce (NIST CHIPS Program Office) The Sherman, Texas site as the award describes it, across the fabs it funds planned anticipated production capacity of more than one hundred million chips every day 2024-08-16 stated as a lower bound Biden-Harris Administration Announces Preliminary Terms with Texas Instruments to Expand U.S. Current-Generation and Mature-Node Chip Capacity, 16 August 2024 https://www.nist.gov/news-events/news/2024/08/biden-harris-administration-announces-preliminary-terms-texas-instruments https://siliconalmanac.com/figure/fab-capacity/ti-sherman-2024-08-chips/
Two lines, tab separated: the headings and one row. The wafer basis and the qualifiers are columns rather than notes, so a row pasted into a model carries them where the model can see them.
Elsewhere in this record
No values here, only where to find them. Two capacity figures side by side is a comparison, and these are not comparable unless they share a wafer basis.
Texas Instruments · Every fab site in the record
Other sites with a stated capacity: The Kumamoto site as a whole, both fabs together · The planned Dresden fab, as described when the joint venture was established · The Dresden fab, restated at groundbreaking · The Agrate Brianza 300mm fab · The Agrate Brianza 300mm fab, beyond the 2027 target · The Crolles 300mm fab · The Crolles 300mm fab, beyond the 2027 target · The Bloomington, Minnesota fab · The Bloomington, Minnesota fab