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Though there are fabs in Texas. The 2 that I know of for sure are Samsung is Austin about 5 miles down the road from the Flextronics plant that builds the MacPro.

National Semiconductor has a fab up in Arlington Texas.

I'm not sure if Texas Instruments still has their fabs open or not, but they had several at one point too. Sure there are more that I don't know about.

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If you're referring to the 'Samsung Austin Semiconductor' in Tech Ridge, I wonder how well the fab is aging. The last building I remember was built primarily for NAND flash production back around 2007 ( https://phys.org/news/2007-06-samsung-largest-wafer-austin-t... ).

Though chipdesign and not fab, also worth remembering Apple acquired Austin-based Intrinsity in 2010 (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Intrinsity)

Samsung did expand the building a couple of years ago. IIRC it was to expand the NAND production.

Aren't all Apple A series CPUs made by TSMC in Taiwan?

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