Semiconductor companies in Austin: the fabs, the chip designers and the suppliers getting state money

This page is for engineers and technicians looking at Austin employers, suppliers trying to get into the region's fabs, and B2B sellers whose customers are chip companies. It covers the Census count, the fabs and their federal awards, the public chip companies headquartered in Austin, the state's own grants, and a prospecting example built from those public records.

The Census count

County Business Patterns 2023 counts NAICS 334413 (semiconductor and related device manufacturing) in the Austin-Round Rock-San Marcos, TX Metro Area (CBSA 12420):

Travis County holds 95.6% of the jobs. The Census Bureau marks the metro employment figure as moderately affected by the noise it adds for confidentiality. Three limits matter here. The count is of establishments with paid employees in March 2023, before Samsung's Taylor fabs in Williamson County were running. It counts plants, not companies. And design-only (fabless) companies, which are a large part of Austin's chip employment, may be classified outside manufacturing, so the 5,670 jobs understate the industry.

The fabs and their federal awards

On 20 December 2024 the Department of Commerce awarded Samsung Electronics up to $4.745 billion in direct funding under the CHIPS Act, after a preliminary agreement announced on 15 April 2024. The award supports Samsung's investment of more than $37 billion to build two leading-edge logic fabs and an R&D fab in Taylor and expand its existing Austin facility, which the CHIPS program says will produce fully depleted silicon-on-insulator (FD-SOI) chips for aerospace, defense and automotive uses. The program's project page estimates more than 3,500 manufacturing jobs and 12,000 construction jobs, with all facilities expected to be operational by 2030. Funds are paid as Samsung completes project milestones.

NXP Semiconductors, headquartered in Eindhoven, lists its Austin (Ed Bluestein) front-end fab in its 2025 10-K: 8-inch wafers at 0.09 to 0.18 micron, making CMOS, embedded non-volatile memory, BCDMOS and radar chips. The same filing says that in late 2025 NXP committed to sell the buildings and land at its Oak Hill site in Austin. AMD, headquartered in Santa Clara, describes Austin as one of its significant operations in its 10-K.

Public chip companies headquartered in Austin

Each figure is from the company's latest 10-K, which gives an Austin headquarters. Cirrus Logic owns about 155,000 square feet of offices in Austin, mostly for research and development. T1 Energy makes solar modules in Dallas and is building a cell plant, G2_Austin, aiming for its first line in the fourth quarter of 2026. Ideal Power, a small power-semiconductor developer, is also based in Austin.

The state's grants

The Texas Semiconductor Innovation Fund (TSIF), created by the Texas CHIPS Act (House Bill 5174) in June 2023, publishes every project it has announced. As of 25 August 2026, the company projects in the Austin metro were:

Together the 12 offers total $335.9 million, $250 million of it for Samsung, and the projects list 1,327 new direct jobs (our sums from the state's table). Most of the non-Samsung projects are materials and parts suppliers locating near the fabs, which tells you where the next wave of purchasing will be.

Where to find more

Prospecting the supplier wave

Illustrative example. The company, rates and results are fictional, to show the method.

Hill Country Cleanroom Supply (hccleanroom.example) stocks cleanroom garments, wipers and consumables and runs a garment laundry. It builds its list from the public records above:

• The two large fab operators (Samsung's Austin and Taylor sites, NXP's Ed Bluestein fab): 3 sites.
• TSIF materials, photomask and parts projects in the metro: KoMiCo, Yerico, Tekscend, LTD Material, Soulbrain, Schunk Xycarb and Quantum Global Technologies, 7 sites.
• The remaining Census establishments with 20 or more employees, matched to names: roughly 8.
• Winning five of those 18 at $250,000 a year in consumables and laundry would be $1.25 million a year.

The buyer at a supplier plant is usually the plant or EHS manager; at a fab it's a contamination control or procurement team, reached through supplier qualification. Time first contact to the state award date: a company that has just signed a TSIF agreement is staffing a new building. Matching each award to the plant manager who will run it is the research Bebop does for each account.

Subject: Cleanroom supply for [Company]'s [city] plant

Hi [first name],

Congratulations on the [city] project. Before first production, most new semiconductor supply plants in Central Texas need a garment program, wipers and consumables qualified to their customer's spec, and a laundry that can turn garments overnight.

We supply and launder for cleanrooms from Round Rock to Taylor. Could I send our qualification pack and a quote for your first shift?

[Your name], Hill Country Cleanroom Supply

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