The facility will add 800 jobs, officials said. It will also use a lot of water.
(Trent Nelson | The Salt Lake Tribune) CEO Haviv Ilan at the groundbreaking ceremony for Texas Instruments’ new semiconductor fabrication facility in Lehi on Thursday, Nov. 2, 2023.
Lehi • The tech manufacturer Texas Instruments broke ground Thursday on its second semiconductor fabrication plant in Lehi — an $11 billion facility expected to create more than 800 jobs, the company’s president said.
At Thursday’s groundbreaking ceremony, TI President and CEO Haviv Ilan said, “we take an important step in our company’s journey to expand our manufacturing footprint in the United States and build the capacity our customers will need for decades to come.”
In addition to the expected 800 jobs, Ilan said the plant would create “thousands” of indirect jobs.
Gov. Spencer Cox, speaking at the event, called the plant the “greatest single economic investment in Utah history.”
The state of Utah has offered the Dallas-based manufacturer a post-performance tax credit of up to 30% of tax income generated over the next 20 years, or up to $34.5 million, according to the Governor’s Office of Economic Opportunity database.
TI’s expansion includes a $9 million investment into the Alpine School District, to develop a STEM (science, technology, engineering and mathematics) program and “community” in K-12 schools. The investment will enhance STEM programming taught in classrooms and provide “STEM-oriented professional development” for teachers and administrators, Ilan said.
Shane Farnsworth, the superintendent of the Alpine School District, said TI’s investment is the largest in district history, and will “benefit tens of thousands of students and educators for years to come, and this community for generations.”
Cox said the investment in schools showed that Texas Instruments “understands the ethos of Utah,” which is to…
