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What Texas Instruments layoffs have meant for employees

TI has called the Dallas and Sherman closings a plan from the start. When it announced them on a January 2020 earnings call, there was no immediate change to staffing, according to The Dallas Morning News, and the plants kept running for years after that. When the notices came in September 2025, TI said the changes included reaching the final steps of a planned, multi-year transition, called them difficult decisions and said in a Dallas Morning News report that its priority was to support employees through them. If that line is most of what you've heard about support, it's fair to ask HR what it means for you in practice, whether that's a package, a transfer or help finding the next job.

For the people still at the old fabs, the new ones are the open question. TI opened its first new Sherman fab in December 2025 with hundreds of employees already at the Sherman site, according to Dallas Morning News coverage of the opening, and a TI vice president said in that report that the timing of two later Sherman fabs depends on economic conditions. When TI set out in 2008 to consolidate its Tucson manufacturing in Sherman, the Arizona Daily Star reported that laid-off Tucson workers wouldn't be transferred there, though they could apply for the new Texas jobs. If you were promised, as a worker told KXII they had been, that staying through the closure would put you first for a job at a new fab, it's worth asking HR whether that priority is written down, which roles it covers and how long it lasts.

The two Texas filings from fall 2025 in our WARN tracker name Dallas and Sherman. Possible cuts at other locations came up in online comments and in a LinkedIn post from a software engineer at TI's Santa Clara, California site who said she'd been affected, both unverified and both reported by the Dallas Morning News. A count from one employee shows how wide a round felt from the inside, and it's still one person's view. If you were let go that week from another TI site, you can search the tracker for Texas Instruments and your state and compare the location and date on each row with your own dates, and it's fair to ask HR whether your separation belonged to the same program as the fab closings.

TI made these cuts while spending heavily on new plants, and that contrast can sting. The Lehi layoffs came three months after TI celebrated an award of up to $1.61 billion in federal CHIPS Act money, The Salt Lake Tribune noted, and the Dallas Morning News pointed out that the Dallas and Sherman notices came less than four months after TI touted plans to spend more than $60 billion on chipmaking in Texas and Utah. TI's own account of Lehi was about efficiency, changes meant to support its long-term operational plans, and it said its plan to stay in Utah and build a second fab there hadn't changed. If you were cut at Lehi and would consider going back, that second fab is worth keeping an eye on.

If you worked at the Dallas or Sherman fabs, our pages on Texas layoff rules and unemployment benefits in Texas cover the state side. For the Lehi fab, unemployment benefits in Utah is the place to start. If you were cut from a TI office in another state, such as the Santa Clara site the Dallas Morning News mentioned, the layoffs page for your state has the rules where you worked.

A sourced history of Texas Instruments layoffs

• September 2025, the last old-fab jobs in Dallas and Sherman

  On September 25 TI told 163 DFAB workers their last paid day would be December 12, The Dallas Morning News reported, with 20 more due in late April and notices in Sherman. An employee's unverified account to KXII put it at nearly 400.

• March 2025, roles cut at the Lehi, Utah fab

  TI eliminated some roles at the Lehi fab it bought from Micron in 2021, a site with 1,100 people in 2023, and told The Salt Lake Tribune the cut reached well under 33% of the workforce.

• January 2020, plan to close the Dallas and Sherman fabs

  TI said its two remaining 150mm fabs, about 500 workers each, would close between 2023 and 2025, and The Dallas Morning News reported plans to move many staff to other Dallas-area plants and give the rest severance packages and transition assistance.

• November 2012, Wireless cutbacks covering about 1,700 jobs

  Refocusing its Wireless business on embedded markets, TI said it would eliminate about 1,700 jobs, substantially by the end of 2013, with TI's November 2012 8-K estimating about $325 million in charges, about $220 million of it for severance and related benefits.

• January 2009, plan to cut about 3,400 jobs

  With demand weakening, TI said in its January 2009 8-K it would cut about 3,400 jobs, 12% of staff, by the third quarter, estimating about $300 million in charges, all for severance and related benefits.

What to do if you're laid off from Texas Instruments

• File for unemployment in the state where you worked. Benefits run from your filing date, and severance usually doesn't block you. Texas Instruments's biggest hubs: Texas. Somewhere else? Every state is here.
• Apply for financial and hardship assistance. Unemployment supplements income, but food benefits, health coverage and utility help are often available as well. Here's some of what Texas Instruments's hub states run: Texas, and every other state is here.
• Mind the health insurance window. Losing coverage opens a 60-day special enrollment period, and an ACA plan usually beats unsubsidized COBRA. Compare your options before the employer coverage lapses, and read how the COBRA clocks run if you are weighing it seriously.
• Get your real runway number. Severance plus savings divided by reality. The calculator takes five minutes.
• Know which clocks are already running. Severance review windows, COBRA election, visa grace periods, and 401(k) rollovers all run on federal deadlines that started at termination. All five deadlines are here.