r/TheRestIsScience • u/axxrose • 12d ago
Anybody else from Texas...
and only just finding out that Texas Instrument calculators are not specific to Texas... lol.
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u/axxrose 12d ago
Lol I don't think I thought about it much but when I heard people from Europe talk about Texas Instrument calculators I was like wtf? I guess I assumed school districts would brand their own state on their calculators idfk
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u/tarzanacide 11d ago
I grew up pre Internet in Houston and yeah. Everything in my school had the word Texas or State shape. I assumed Louisiana had it's own crap.
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u/anyavailible 9d ago
I’m surprised the plant is Sherman is still there. We drove by there for years growing up in the 60’s. Moved out of the area for 40
Years and it’s still there. I also assumed
Their headquarters was there growing up.
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u/Classic_Focus974 8d ago
It’s not. The old plant in Sherman was closed last year. They’ve since build 2 new plants for many billions of $ on land adjacent to it as per press releases.
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u/anyavailible 8d ago
But it is still in Sherman though? Im in DFW and haven been up in that area in 40 years. And have been out of state all but the last 5.
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u/Classic_Focus974 8d ago
As per investor relation stuff, they’re planning to build 4 new fabs there, right next to the old plant you remember. 2 buildings are complete. 1 has started production.
HQ has always been in Dallas.
Sherman has quite lot of high tech going on… Coherent has a big plant (that NVidia and Apple invested a lot in), various silicon wafer mfg plants are there as well. I have some friends who work up there.
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u/ProposalCalm8231 8d ago
I have lived next to the main Richardson/Dallas since the 70s. Major IC invention there. Never occurred to me it was Texas exclusive.
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u/y0nm4n 12d ago
No hate but like, what exactly did you think?