Overview
Research Plus Commercial Fabs
The cluster spans Brazos County (College Station, Bryan, RELLIS) and Grimes County (Gibbons Creek Reservoir), along the eastern end of the US Hwy 79 Corridor via Highway 30. Texas A&M supplies research, radiation testing and workforce; Substrate and SpaceX supply manufacturing for Tesla autonomy, SpaceX orbital compute and AI data centers. Chancellor John Sharp called Project Factory One "the biggest thing to come to Brazos County since A&M was put here" in 2024, before Terafab was announced.
| Anchor | Location | Capital | Role |
|---|---|---|---|
| Terafab | Gibbons Creek, Grimes County | $16.8B+ (first phase) | SpaceX high-volume AI chip fab; under construction |
| Substrate Project Factory One | RELLIS Campus, Bryan | $10B to $13B | Commercial fab on a 288-acre RELLIS reinvestment zone |
| Texas A&M Semiconductor Institute | RELLIS Campus, Bryan | ~$200M Texas CHIPS Act | Research facility; broke ground April 2026 |
| Center for Microdevices and Systems | TAMU, College Station | $26.4M Texas CHIPS Act | Microelectronics research, integrated with AggieFab |
| Cyclotron Institute | TAMU, College Station | $28.1M expansion | Radiation testing for space and defense chips |
| AggieFab Nanofabrication | TAMU, College Station | Existing | Research cleanroom and workforce training |
RELLIS
The RELLIS Campus
The Texas A&M System formed RELLIS in 2017 on about 3,300 acres of the former Bryan Air Force Base, about eight miles from the main campus. System investment there exceeds $1.5 billion across hypersonics, autonomous vehicles, communications, defense, energy, AI computing and now semiconductors. Open acreage next to a top-10 engineering school is its main draw.
The Texas CHIPS Act (2023) gave Texas A&M $226.4 million for the Semiconductor Institute and its Center for Microdevices and Systems, alongside the Texas Semiconductor Innovation Fund. The Brazos Valley Economic Development Corporation (BVEDC) recruits operators; its 2024 delegation to Japan met five Japanese semiconductor companies.
Grimes County
Terafab at Gibbons Creek
Governor Greg Abbott announced Terafab on August 6, 2026: a first phase of more than $16.8 billion, about 3,000 jobs and a 100-million-square-foot facility combining logic, memory and advanced packaging. The state added a $30 million Texas Enterprise Fund grant and a JETI designation, and Iola ISD and Anderson-Shiro CISD approved tax agreements with TeraFab AI, LLC. The pilot line is the Terafab Research Fab at Giga Texas.
The site, about 20 miles east of Bryan-College Station on Highway 30, is the former Texas Municipal Power Agency coal plant (1982-2018, demolished 2021). It brings existing transmission, reservoir water and a shorter site-preparation schedule than a greenfield fab, without waiting in the ERCOT interconnection queue.
Statewide
Place in Texas Semiconductors
Samsung Taylor anchors Central Texas manufacturing; the Brazos Valley adds separate fab capacity plus university research. Other Texas anchors include TI Sherman, UT Austin TIE NGMM and GlobalWafers America in Sherman.
Record
Dataset Record
- Sources
- Office of the Governor; KBTX; Texas A&M System; Manufacturing Dive; BVEDC
- Last verified
- Q4 2026