Industry News

Dallas-based Texas Instruments (TI) is planning to construct its next major semiconductor manufacturing plant in Richardson, Texas. TI will invest approximately $3 billion in the 300mm silicon wafer plant in the years following groundbreaking in late 2005. The plant will employ up to 1,000 people when fully operational. The siting of the plant in Texas will provide over $300-million in new funding from private and public sources for the Erik Jonsson School of Engineering and Computer Science at the University of Texas at Dallas.  

Internet software maker Neoteris is relocating its headquarters from Mountain View to Sunnyvale, Calif. The new 44,702-sf facility triples Neoteris’ office space and expands available lab space for research and product development.

Cypress Semiconductor Corp. will open a new chip design center in Hyderabad, India by year-end 2003. Cypress, based in Silicon Valley, currently operates 18 design centers worldwide. The new facility will complement Cypress’ current Indian design center in Bangalore. 

NCI Information Systems has contracted Chantilly, Va.-based Dietze Construction Group to perform the buildout of its new 75,500-sf office in Reston, Va. The project was designed by The M Group in Vienna, Va. 

Unisys, a worldwide IT services and solutions company, will occupy 280,000 sf of office space at Plaza America III. Located adjacent to Reston Town Center, the facility is part of the 1.2 million-sf Plaza America mixed-use development. The lease is part of Unisys’ 420,000-sf, $250-million expansion as it consolidates its federal government and global public sector divisions.