US semiconductor manufacturer does not give up factory in Europe
Texas Instruments is sticking with the Munich location.
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Freising When Texas Instruments (TI) opened his plant in Freising, Ludwig Erhard was Chancellor. Back then, in 1966, it was not foreseeable that the new Munich airport would one day open right in front of the company premises.
The plant on the outskirts of Munich still exists today. And it is the only production facility of the world’s eighth largest chip company in Europe, where only a few US semiconductor manufacturers have any locations at all.
Even after almost 50 years, the existence of the traditional factory in Freising is not endangered, assures Andreas Schwaiger, head of TI Germany, in an interview with the Handelsblatt. It is impossible to imagine the production network of Texas Instruments without it. Even if TI is currently in the USA billions of dollars in modern, new plants.
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