Construction to Begin This Year on 300-mm Wafer Fab in Texas

GlobalWafers will start construction later this year on a fab in Sherman, Texas, that will produce 1.2 million 300-millimeter wafers a month and support up to 1,500 jobs when it’s fully operational after 2025, said the Taiwanese chip company Monday. Most 300-millimeter silicon wafers are the “starting material” for all advanced semiconductor fabs, it said. The wafers are typically manufactured in Asia, but the Sherman investment “will represent the first new silicon wafer facility in the U.S. in over two decades and close a critical semiconductor supply chain gap,” it said. The GlobalWafers investment "is critical to rebuilding the domestic semiconductor supply chain, strengthening our economic and national security, and creating U.S. manufacturing jobs,” said Commerce Secretary Gina Raimondo in a statement.