Texas Instruments Sherman

SM1 to SM4 · GlobalWafers America · Sherman, Grayson County

The world's largest 300mm analog fab, with its wafer supplier next door. SM1 began production in December 2025; three more fabs can follow on the same campus.

  • Operating
  • Shell built
  • Planned
Schematic of the Sherman campus: TI's SM1 fab operating, SM2 built as a shell, SM3 and SM4 planned, with GlobalWafers America next door supplying 300mm wafers and GlobiTech making epitaxial wafers TEXAS INSTRUMENTS SHERMAN CAMPUS OPERATINGSM1 SHELL BUILTSM2 PLANNEDSM3 PLANNEDSM4 NEXT DOOR OPERATINGGlobalWafersAmerica300MM WAFERS FOR SM1 OPERATINGGlobiTechSILICON AND SIC EPI SHERMAN, GRAYSON COUNTY
SM1 production
December 2025
Campus
Up to four fabs
Planned investment
Up to $40B
Jobs
Up to 3,000
Wafer supplier
GlobalWafers, next door
Sector
Semiconductors

Overview

The Largest 300mm Analog Fab

Texas Instruments' SM1 fab in Sherman, Grayson County, began volume production in December 2025. It makes analog and embedded processing chips on 300mm wafers, up to tens of millions of chips a day at full capacity: power management, motor control, sensor interfaces and microcontrollers for cars, factories, data centers and consumer electronics.

SM1 is the first of up to four fabs on the campus, sized for up to $40B over time and up to 3,000 direct jobs. Sherman is the largest piece of TI's plan to spend more than $60B on seven fabs in Texas and Utah, supported by up to $1.6B in CHIPS Act funding.

The four Sherman fabs
FabStatusNext step
SM1OperatingVolume production since December 2025
SM2Shell builtCleanroom and tool installation next
SM3PlannedBuilt as demand requires
SM4PlannedBuilt as demand requires

The Sherman cluster

Wafers Made Next Door

GlobalWafers America opened its 300mm silicon wafer plant in Sherman in May 2025, GlobalWafers' largest site anywhere. A $4B expansion announced the same month brought its committed investment to about $7.5B, with $406M in CHIPS Act funding. Its wafers are feedstock for SM1 and for other US fabs, cutting a dependence on wafers shipped from Asia.

GlobiTech, GlobalWafers' epitaxy subsidiary in Sherman, makes silicon and silicon carbide epitaxial wafers and is converting part of its capacity to 150mm and 200mm silicon carbide, the material behind EV inverters and grid power electronics.

In Texas

Analog in the North, Leading-Edge Logic in Central Texas

Sherman is the other half of the Texas chip base. Samsung Taylor is built for leading-edge logic and Tesla's Terafab is planned for AI chips; TI makes the analog and embedded chips that sit around that logic in every car, robot, Megapack and server rack. Tesla's vehicles, Optimus and Megapack all need both kinds.

Sherman is about 65 miles north of downtown Dallas: far enough out for large land parcels and less competition for water, close enough to draw on the Dallas-Fort Worth workforce and the defense electronics base around Lockheed Martin in Fort Worth and Raytheon in McKinney. Grayson College and Sherman ISD train technicians for TI and GlobalWafers.

Constraints

Demand, Water and Power

SM2 to SM4 follow demand. TI builds and equips fabs as analog orders grow; slower growth in cars, factories or data centers means a slower campus, not an abandoned one.

A four-fab campus plus the wafer plants needs far more water and power than Sherman supplied before 2022. The city and region have expanded both, and SM3 and SM4 will need more.

Record

Dataset Record

Sources
Texas Instruments, GlobalWafers and US Department of Commerce announcements
Last verified
Q4 2026