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Texas Instruments Got $1.6 Billion in Federal Chip Money, Finalized a Month Before Trump Took Office. Under Trump, It Announced $10 Billion More For the Same Plant — With No New Federal Money Attached.

Texas Instruments' $1.6 billion federal chip grant for its Sherman, Texas plant was finalized under the Biden administration a month before the handoff. The company's much larger follow-on investment was announced seven months into the Trump administration, credited publicly to it — with no comparable new federal money attached.

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The equity stake used to be rare — three precedents explain why it's back

Since July 2025 the federal government has taken direct equity positions in at least four companies -- Intel, MP Materials, GlobalFoundri...

The US Makes 12% of the World's Semiconductors, Down From 37% in 1990. Micron — Born in a Boise Basement — Just Broke Ground on the Fab Meant to Help Fix That.

US semiconductor manufacturing has fallen from 37% of world supply in 1990 to about 12% today. Micron, founded in 1978 in the basement of...

BMW's Spartanburg Plant Has Been America's Largest Vehicle Exporter by Value for a Decade — and the Answer to 2025's New Tariffs Was to Make It Bigger

A German automaker's plant in Spartanburg has been America's largest vehicle exporter by value for over a decade. When new 2025 tariffs h...

The US Government's Most Sensitive Chip Supply Chain Changed Hands in a Single Corporate Transaction in 2015. Nobody Voted on It.

The DoD doesn't buy chips for its most sensitive systems on the open market -- it relies on a small list of formally "Trusted" fabs, a li...

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