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Because Texas Instruments relies on an old factory at Munich Airport

Clean room in Freising

Texas Instruments remains loyal to the Munich location.

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Freising When Texas Instruments (TI) opened its plant in Freising, Ludwig Erhard was Chancellor. Back then, in 1966, it was unforeseeable that the new Munich airport would one day open right in front of the company headquarters.

The plant on the outskirts of Munich still exists today. And it’s the world’s eighth-largest chip company’s only manufacturing plant in Europe, where only a few US semiconductor makers have locations.

Even after almost 50 years, the existence of the traditional factory in Freising is not in danger, assures Andreas Schwaiger, head of TI Germany, in an interview with Handelsblatt. It is impossible to imagine the Texas Instruments production network without it. Even though TI is currently investing billions of dollars in new modern facilities in the US.

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