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UT Dallas
Economic Development Update
June 25, 2025
Following last month’s look at key national and state export/import industries, this month we focus on their impact within Dallas-Fort Worth (DFW) counties. In 2023, the DFW region’s GDP exceeded $744 billion, with four industries contributing over $67 billion and most jobs concentrated in four dominant DFW counties.
Read the latest issue of The Connection for all the details.
![The Connection. Sparks fly as a worker grinds a piece of metal. Photo Credit: 2020 Josh Beech on Unsplash [https://unsplash.com/photos/person-in-black-jacket-holding-brown-wooden-rolling-pin-tXJhAFVOHVk]](https://economicengine.utdallas.edu/news/2025/img/newsletter_20250625_a.jpg "The Connection. Sparks fly as a worker grinds a piece of metal. Photo Credit: 2020 Josh Beech on Unsplash [https://unsplash.com/photos/person-in-black-jacket-holding-brown-wooden-rolling-pin-tXJhAFVOHVk]")
![A silicon wafer. Photo Credit: 2022 Maxence Pira on Unsplash [https://unsplash.com/photos/a-close-up-of-a-computer-aNaq4lbX99E]](https://economicengine.utdallas.edu/news/2025/img/newsletter_20250625_b.jpg "A silicon wafer. Photo Credit: 2022 Maxence Pira on Unsplash [https://unsplash.com/photos/a-close-up-of-a-computer-aNaq4lbX99E]")
Dallas-based Texas Instruments (TI) plans to invest more than $60 billion across seven U.S. semiconductor fabs, including four complete and/or planned fabs in Sherman and RFAB2 in Richardson. TI’s U.S. manufacturing expansion will help supply the growing need for semiconductors that will advance critical innovations from vehicles to smartphones to data centers. This is the largest investment in foundational semiconductor manufacturing in U.S. history.
We are happy to fulfill customized data requests for our North Texas economic development partners and to connect local industry with UT Dallas research and workforce development initiatives.
Please reach out to Jenny Mizutowicz, CEcD to learn how your organization can partner with UT Dallas.
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