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US government is granting GlobalWafers up to $400 million in CHIPS Act cash to help fund its 300mm wafer manufacturing facilities in Texas and Missouri. The Commerce Department said GlobalWafers' Texas plant is a significant milestone for the US as it's the country's first facility for manufacturing 300mm wafers, the kind that …

  1. Glenn Amspaugh
    Coat

    Obligatory…

    …eet's wahfer theen!

  2. ivorb

    Strange claims

    Not sure what all the "first wafer plant" - basically any chip fab is a wafer fab.

    "the country's first facility for manufacturing 300mm wafers" - which country? One assumes that since it's discussing Texas and Missouri (a.k.a. "misery"), that the "country" is the USA. In which case there are other 300mm fabs around - e.g. TI's R fab in Richardson, TX.

    What are GW doing that's so revolutionary?

  3. Anonymous Coward
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    I worked for them 15 years ago when they had a plant in Texas. That very profitable plant was closed and sent to Malaysia for cheaper labor (which, in short-sighted MBA fashion, lost them a lot of customers and essentially led to bankruptcy). How long until the same happens to these? Once the government money train stops running?

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