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New Texas Instruments fab will pump out tens of millions of chips per day — first 300mm fab starts production after $60 billion investment

Texas Instruments has started producing 300mm wafers at its new Sherman, Texas mega-site, with the SM1 fab capable of outputting tens of millions of chips per day.

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GlobalWafers to invest $4 billion into U.S. chip manufacturing after opening Texas plant

Taiwanese manufacturer GlobalWafers is planning to invest $4 billion more into US-based chip manufacturing after opening a new facility in Sherman, Texas.

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Texas school board launches investigation into how a trans student was stripped of his role in musical

The Sherman school board also temporarily ended the superintendent oversight of its fine arts programs pending the results of the investigation.

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After controversy, Texas school board says transgender student can sing in school musical

After Max Hightower scored a role in the seminal American musical, administrators changed their policy on performers’ gender. After backlash, the school board directed the school to produce the original version “Oklahoma!” — not a youth version that cut Hightower’s solo.

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Death row inmate made chilling confession about where murdered woman's body is

David Neal Cox brutally murdered his wife and sexually assaulted his stepdaughter in front of her at their home in Sherman, Texas, in 2010 and then spent more than a decade waiting to be executed

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Marriott releases details of woman’s accusation against Michael Irvin

SHERMAN, Texas — For the first time Friday, Marriott unveiled specific details about a female employee’s accusation against Michael Irvin in a hotel-lobby conversation that occurred in Phoenix last month, the account portraying the former Cowboys wide receiver’s actions as drunken and at times aggressive flirtation that included a lewd…

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Death row inmate who cut out his own eyes seeks clemency after murdering wife and kids

Andre Thomas has languished on death row after stabbing his estranged wife and their two children to death in his hometown of Sherman, Texas, US. He cut out the childrens' hearts

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A Texas Republican has started the process to impeach the secretary of Homeland Security over border security

Pat Fallon, R-Sherman, filed articles of impeachment late Monday, delayed a week because of the contentious majority vote for the U.S. House speaker.

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Go inside Texas Instruments’ newest fab, where chips powering the digital world are born

Texas Instruments’ new silicon wafer fabrication facility in Richardson, Texas, could easily be mistaken for a typical business expansion. It’s been built to blend in with an adjacent structure that’s been part of the company’s manufacturing arsenal since 2009.

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How Beto O’Rourke has evolved since saying ‘Hell, yes,’ he’d take your AR-15

SHERMAN, Texas — At an April town hall meeting, Beto O’Rourke was asked about AR-15s, the popular semi-automatic rifle he pledged to confiscate in 2019 during his run for president.

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How Texas Instruments went from phasing out this chip plant to modernizing it

Before Texas Instruments Inc. selected Sherman for a $30 billion expansion, the Dallas-based analog chip producer was packing its bags to leave.

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How a Texas town is making itself into an epicenter of the US semiconductor universe

In downtown Sherman, Texas, markers explain the city’s past and restaurants and coffee shops boast about the historic buildings they call home.

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Texas Instruments details its plan to invest billions in US semiconductor chip production through 2030

Texas Instruments revealed plans Thursday to invest $3.5 billion annually in its U.S. semiconductor chip manufacturing through 2025 as manufacturers face a global shortage of the tech necessary for an increasing number of goods.

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