德州仪器公司has plans to build as many as four semiconductor chip fabrication plants in Sherman, Texas, at a cost totaling nearly $30 billion. Work on the first plant broke ground last month.

The plans for the first plant, known as a “fab,” include construction of a 1.04-million-sq-ft manufacturing building, plus support buildings and ancillary facilities at a total expected cost of $6.5 billion in the city about an hour north of Dallas, Sherman city records show. Austin Commercial is the general contractor for the project, according to Dodge Global Network data. Neither Texas Instruments nor Austin Commercial immediately responded to calls for comment, though Austin Commercial hosted a virtual supplier fair for Texas Instruments’ Sherman manufacturing facilities in March.

Austin Commercial is a unit of Dallas-based Austin Industries, which ranks No. 32 on ENR’s 2022前400名承包商列表。奥斯汀商业公司（Austin Commercial）之前曾在德克萨斯州理查森（Richardson）的至少另一项Texas Instruments Fab项目工作。

The fab is designed to meet LEED Gold requirements, Texas Instruments says. Page Southerland Page Inc. is the architect for the project, according to Dodge.

德州仪器公司plans to make 300-mm semiconductor wafers at the plant, using a process it says will reduce waste and consumption of water and energy compared to its 150-mm wafer production. The company expects the fab to begin production in 2025.

记录显示，该公司可以在谢尔曼（Sherman）网站上建造三个额外的工厂，以满足随着时间的推移可能增加的需求，第二阶段估计耗资70亿美元，第三亿美元，第三亿美元和第四笔$ 83亿美元。

City officials last year approved incentives for Texas Instruments to convince the company to choose the Sherman site. Those incentives include a 90% tax abatement for 10 years, provided the company meets capital investment thresholds and hiring commitments, plus a grant to cover 90% of property taxes paid for an additional 20 years.

The project comes amid a push to increase U.S. semiconductor chip manufacturing as shortages have impacted production of other goods. Federal lawmakers have been negotiating a bill that, as passed by the House earlier this year, would include$52 billionto boost private investment in semiconductor production over five years. Chipmakers are already working to meet the increased demand, with Intel planning a $20-billion,two-fab “mega-site”在俄亥俄州，英特尔和台湾半导体制造业公司都在亚利桑那州建造新工厂，三星计划在德克萨斯州进行新的工厂。