Chips manufacturing, packaging expands in Texas

TAYLOR, Texas (KBTX) – National, state and local leaders gathered in Taylor for an announcement about expanding computer chip manufacturing.

This is a partnership between Samsung and national leaders for $45 billion in investments over the next decade. The new facility in Taylor will not only manufacture the chips but will also package them, making sure all processing remains in the United States.

The U.S. Commerce Secretary, Gina Raimondo, said this project expects to produce 20% of the world’s chips by 2030. She said the push to make this investment happen began after a trip with President Joe Biden to a Samsung facility in Korea.

“This facility here will be twice as big as that facility in Korea. That’s unbelievable, twice as big as what we saw there and you’re doing it at an unbelievable speed. 4.5 million square feet built in last 18 months, unbelievable,” she said.

This facility is part of the Chips Act, which was championed by Congressman Michael McCaul and Senator John Cornyn, who say they pushed for not only this expanded effort but also to bring it to Texas.

“Get ready because times are changing, big things are coming,” Congressman Michael McCaul said. “It goes into all this advanced technology most importantly from my vantage point as Chairman of Foreign Affairs, it will go into our most advanced Weapons Systems that we so highly desperately need at a very dangerous time.”

McCaul also credited work at the RELLIS Campus in Bryan to expand chip research into the future and shared how A&M will impact this market.

“I’m proud to be a part of it but I’m also proud that Texas A&M has stepped up to the plate for the research and development component that will go a long way to making the nation safer,” he said.

The facility in Taylor will create over 20,000 jobs and span 1,200 acres.