Texas governor Greg Abbott has announced that the fifth Texas Semiconductor Innovation Fund grant of $17.3 million has been extended to Space Exploration Technologies Corporation (SpaceX) for an expansion of their semiconductor research and development (R&D) and advanced packaging facility in Bastrop, Texas. This expansion is expected to create more than 400 jobs and more than $280 million in capital investment.
Over the next three years, SpaceX’s Bastrop facility will expand by 1 million square feet to produce Starlink kits and their component parts, including advanced packaged silicon products. Starlink satellites provide high-speed, low-latency broadband internet to more than five million people and businesses in more than 120 countries and territories. The proposed project includes printed circuit boards (PCBs), a semiconductor failure analysis lab and advanced packaging for panel level packaging (PLP). Once complete, the Bastrop facility will be the largest PCB and
