[Yossarian]

That’s terrible, but why does a US company have that many foreign employees?

A reasonable answer, which may be the case for this, is that they are supplying parts to Chinese electronics manufacturers (board level), and the support office is in Malaysia.

The reality is that Texas Instruments has a plant in Malaysia. As to why that plant isn't in the USA, while chip manufacturing is indeed _very_ hazardous work, the regulations on it go beyond reasonable now in the US, not to mention energy costs (for both manufacturing and transport to customers).

[jsanders2001]

> A reasonable answer, which may be the case for this, is that they are supplying parts to Chinese electronics manufacturers (board level), and the support office is in Malaysia.

The reality is that Texas Instruments has a plant in Malaysia. As to why that plant isn’t in the USA, while chip manufacturing is indeed _very_ hazardous work, the regulations on it go beyond reasonable now in the US, not to mention energy costs (for both manufacturing and transport to customers).

I’m just thinking out loud here but does TI manufacuture any of the chips found in the electronic voting machines?

[PieterCasparzen]

As to why that plant isn't in the USA, while chip manufacturing is indeed _very_ hazardous work, the regulations on it go beyond reasonable now in the US, not to mention energy costs (for both manufacturing and transport to customers).

There are plants in the US; IBM recently built a new one in NY state.

High tech such as that gets a lot of "romance" benefits from government to build plants.

[RinaseaofDs]

Don’t forget the need for lots and lots of fresh water. I good semi-conductor fab plant can use 5,000,000 gallons of water per day.