{"id":987405,"date":"2026-01-24T08:04:03","date_gmt":"2026-01-24T02:34:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/?p=987405"},"modified":"2026-01-24T08:10:34","modified_gmt":"2026-01-24T02:40:34","slug":"taiwans-globalwafers-preparing-for-phase-two-expansion-at-texas-plant","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/2026\/01\/24\/taiwans-globalwafers-preparing-for-phase-two-expansion-at-texas-plant\/","title":{"rendered":"Taiwan&#8217;s GlobalWafers preparing for phase two expansion at Texas plant"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>HSINCHU, Taiwan: Taiwanese silicon wafer \u2060manufacturer GlobalWafers is preparing for the phase two expansion of its plant in the U.S. state of Texas, subject to customer commitments, Chairperson Doris Hsu told reporters on Wednesday. In May of last year, GlobalWafers said \u200cit would \u200cinvest an additional $4 billion in the United States to meet growing customer demand there, after opening a new $3.5 billion wafer facility \u200cin Texas. <\/p>\n<p>The existing plant, GlobalWafers&#8217; most advanced fully integrated 300mm (12 inch) silicon wafer facility, is the first of its kind built in the U.S. in more than two decades and is currently the only advanced wafer manufacturing site in the country.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>HSINCHU, Taiwan: Taiwanese silicon wafer \u2060manufacturer GlobalWafers is preparing for the phase two expansion of its plant in the U.S. state of Texas, subject to customer commitments, Chairperson Doris Hsu told reporters on Wednesday. In May of last year, GlobalWafers said \u200cit would \u200cinvest an additional $4 billion in the United States to meet growing customer demand there, after opening a new $3.5 billion wafer facility \u200cin Texas. The existing plant, GlobalWafers&#8217; most advanced fully integrated 300mm (12 inch) silicon wafer facility, is the first of its kind built in the U.S. in more than two decades and is currently [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[59,4,10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-987405","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-it-2-the-economic-times","category-newspapers","category-the-economic-times"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/987405","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=987405"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/987405\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=987405"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=987405"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=987405"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}