Dallas-based Texas Instruments is receiving $1.6 billion from the federal government to fund new semiconductor manufacturing facilities in Texas and Utah.

Texas Instruments, a semiconductor multinational that produces chips for industrial, automotive, and personal electronics uses -- among others -- had announced a new 300-millimeter semiconductor wafer (a material used in electronics to conduct electricity) fabrication plant in Lehi next to an existing similar facility, a $11 billion investment, according to a news release from the company.

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