On December 6, Texas Instruments (TI), the world's largest analog chip company, announced that its new 12-inch fab LFAB in Lehi, Utah, USA has begun to produce analog and embedded products. Texas Instruments acquired it about a year ago. the factory.

LFAB is Texas Instruments' second 12-inch fab to start producing semiconductors in 2022, providing the manufacturing capacity needed for decades to come. RFAB2, located in Richardson, Texas, USA, entered the initial production stage in September.

LFAB is located in the heart of the SiliconSlopes community in Utah, USA, less than an hour's drive from Salt Lake City, and is the only 12-inch semiconductor fab in Utah. The fab has more than approximately 25,548 square meters of clean rooms, and the highly advanced facility includes approximately 11,265 meters of automated overhead conveyor systems for rapid transport of wafers throughout the fab.

Acquired by Texas Instruments in October 2021, LFAB can support 65nm and 45nm production technologies to manufacture analog and embedded products, and will go beyond these technology nodes as needed. When fully operational, LFAB will manufacture tens of millions of chips per day that will be used in everything from renewable energy to electric vehicles to electronics for space telescopes. Texas Instruments' total investment in the Lehi fab will amount to approximately $3 billion to $4 billion.

Kyle Flessner, senior vice president of Texas Instruments Technology and Manufacturing Group, said that this achievement is part of the company's long-term capacity investment and further strengthens the company's commitment to support the future growth of semiconductors in the electronics field by expanding its internal manufacturing capabilities.