Samsung teases 11 Texas fabs as $50 billion CHIPS Act vote nears

A semiconductor empire built under the water-starved Texas sun? What could go wrong?

As the US senate prepares to vote on a $50 billion bill to subsidize stateside chip manufacturing, Samsung has lodged an 11th hour proposal to build 11 semiconductor fabs around Austin, Texas over the next two decades, at an estimated total cost of $200 billion....