The world's largest contract chipmaker may be coming to Texas.
TSMC is reportedly studying up to six advanced chip plants near Dallas.
That would come on top of the $265 billion it has already committed in Arizona.
@Reuters reports the same, citing two people familiar with the plans.
Nothing is signed yet. TSMC's board hasn't approved it, and the company reports earnings on October 15, so we may hear more then.
But there's a good case for doing it, and it starts with the customers:
American companies made up about three quarters of TSMC's revenue in the first half of this year, and Washington wants more of their chips made here.
Dallas would be a fitting choice. TSMC's founder, Morris Chang, spent 25 years at Texas Instruments in Dallas before starting the company in 1987. He joined TI in 1958, the same year one of its engineers, Jack Kilby, built the first integrated circuit.
Texas is still in the business. TI is making chips at a new plant in Sherman, and Samsung has started trial runs at its plant in Taylor.
The chip was invented in Dallas. Sixty-eight years later, TSMC could be about to build there.