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The Chip Factory That Opened in 2025 RoadyGoat

2025

Right here in Sherman, Texas Instruments started making computer chips in December 2025 at its newest semiconductor plant, a facility called SM1. Here's what makes that remarkable: they broke ground on an empty field in May 2022. So in about three and a half years, raw dirt became a working factory printing some of the most intricate objects humans build. And SM1 is just the beginning. It's the first of up to four connected fabs planned for this one site, SM1 through SM4, with up to forty billion dollars earmarked for Sherman alone. The plant makes 300-millimeter silicon wafers, the modern industry standard, thin polished discs that each carry thousands of chips. Think about the contradiction in that. A building you can see from the highway, raised in record time, exists to manufacture features far too small for your eye to ever see. Big, fast, and impossibly precise, all at once.

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Why Bigger Circles Make Cheaper Chips RoadyGoat

A wafer is a thin, round, mirror-polished disc of silicon, and hundreds or thousands of identical chips get printed onto each one before it's sliced apart. The Sherman plant makes 300-millimeter wafers, about 12 inches across, a jump up from the older 200-millimeter standard, which was roughly 8 inches. Now here's the geometry that drives a whole industry. A circle's area grows with the square of its radius. So going from 200 to 300 millimeters is only 1.5 times the diameter, but about 2.25 times the area. That means more than twice as many chips come off each bigger wafer in roughly the same processing run. More chips per wafer means a lower cost per chip, and that is the entire reason the industry moved to bigger discs. But be clear about what bigger does not do. It does not shrink the transistors or make the chips faster. The win is cost and throughput, more chips per batch, not miniaturization.

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Why a Single Speck of Dust Is a Disaster RoadyGoat

The features printed on a modern chip are far smaller than a single speck of dust, smaller even than a bacterium. So one stray particle landing on a wafer can short out a circuit or ruin a chip entirely. That's why chips are made in cleanrooms, with air filtered hundreds of times cleaner than an operating room. It's also why workers wear full-body bunny suits. The surprise is that the suit isn't there to protect the worker. It protects the chip from the human, because we shed skin flakes and tiny particles constantly. So how does a circuit even get onto the wafer? A process called photolithography. They shine light through a patterned mask, like a stencil, onto a light-sensitive coating on the wafer, printing the circuit pattern, then etch it in. Then they repeat that in dozens of layers, building the chip up bit by bit. These are the cleanest, most precise factories humans have ever built.

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Savoy, TX

1880

Savoy is at the intersection of U.S. Highway 82 and Farm Road 1752, on the Missouri Pacific line ten miles west of Bonham in extreme west central Fannin County. It was established about 1863 by Col. William Savoy, a pioneer settler and landowner who had arrived in the area in the late 1850s. The settlement grew slowly until after the Civil War , when hundreds of settlers began arriving in the area. In 1873 a post office opened; also in the 1870s the Savoy Male and Female College began operations and the Texas and Pacific Railway extended its tracks through the community. With the trade opportunities made possible by the railroad, Savoy became an agricultural shipping center for area farmers, who produced cotton, corn, grain, and numerous other products. In the wake of a May 28, 1880, tornado that killed eleven persons and virtually destroyed the community, Savoy rebuilt and continued to grow and develop. By 1885 it had incorporated, and by the end of the decade the local population had reached 300. By that time Savoy had twenty-five businesses, including several cotton gins, four dry-goods stores, two steam gristmills, two hotels, and a hardware store. More than 1,000 bales of cotton were shipped from Savoy in 1888. Fire destroyed the Savoy Male and Female College in 1890, but by 1897 the town reported a population of 500, some twenty businesses, three churches, and several public schools. Around this time area farmers shipped some 10,000 bushels of wheat, 7,000 bushels of corn, and perhaps 3,000 bales of cotton annually from Savoy. The population rose from 343 in 1900 to 400 in 1915 and declined slightly to 378 by the mid-1920s. On the eve of World War I Savoy had some twenty-seven businesses, including a bank and a weekly newspaper; by the end of World War II it had thirteen businesses and 298 residents. The population had increased to 493 by the mid-1960s, and by the mid-1970s it had reached 783, with eleven businesses. By 1990 Savoy reported a population of 877. The population dropped to 850 in 2000.

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Fort Warren

1836

(site six miles north) First settlement and fort In Fannin County. Built in 1836 by Abel Warren, Indian trader from Arkansas, to protect his trading post. Constructed of bois d'arc wood, the structure had a two-story guardhouse at all four corners. Kiowa, Tonkawa, Caddo, Wichita and other Indians came here to trade furs for paint, knives and trinkets. In Civil War, Fort Warren was a transport and food supply center, where goods were sent to Confederate Indian refugees and troops in Indian Territory (to the north) and to soldiers in Louisiana and Arkansas. (1968)

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Savoy Male and Female College

1876

Savoy Male and Female College, at Savoy, in Fannin County, was one of the first coeducational academic institutions in North Texas. It was established in 1876 through the efforts of R. R. Halsell, president, Lewis Holland, vice president, and trustees James L. German , Thomas J. Chenoweth, and James Paxton. The school provided educational opportunities regardless of ability to pay tuition for young men and women in the area and Indian students from reservations in Oklahoma. It also offered primary and preparatory classes for county school children. By the mid-1880s Savoy Male and Female College granted its pupils A.B. and B.S. degrees. Social contact between the male and female students was permitted only on special occasions, and then a chaperon had to be present. Social integration did occur, however, due to the many school activities, including a drama club, a debate team, three literary societies, and the publication of a combined literary magazine and college newspaper, the Platonian Messenger . In 1887–88 the college enrollment was forty men and twenty-five women, the primary department had 102 children, the preparatory department registered 133, and the institution enrolled forty-four Indian students, one at the college level. Although Savoy College had established a reputation as an institution of sound academic standing by the late 1880s, it failed to recover from a fire that destroyed the college plant in 1890. Efforts to reopen the college were unsuccessful. A Savoy College Ex-Students Association was organized in 1937 with 128 members. It continued to meet until 1962, when four members, the only survivors of the original alumni, attended.

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Everheart-Canaan Cemetery

1848

Emanuel and Rachel Montgomery Everheart arrived here in 1848 with their son, William, and members of her family. By 1850, the Everhearts owned 3,346 acres, including this land. Family history holds that the oldest burials here (in the northwest corner) date prior to 1853 and are those of the Everhearts' slaves. Pilot Grove Cumberland Presbyterian Church, organized at Kentuckytown, moved to Everheart land a mile east of this site and became known as the Canaan Church. Members utilized this cemetery and shared their sanctuary with a Methodist Episcopal congregation that moved from Pitman's Chapel. The oldest marked grave, from June 24, 1875, is that of W.H. Rumsower, one of several Confederate soldiers buried here. Other burials include William C. Everheart, the Grayson County Sheriff from 1876 to 1880 and later a Deputy United States Marshal. Many of the pioneers of the Canaan community are buried in family plots here. Nell Arnoldi Everheart cared for the cemetery until her death in 1973, and the Everheart Cemetery Association later formed. Historic Texas Cemetery - 2004

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William W. Bell Cemetery

1845

William W. Bell (1794 -1845) immigrated to the United States from his native England in 1820. By 1836 he had come to Texas, where he enlisted in the Republic of Texas army in February 1837. He later served in a company of Texas Rangers and was granted a contract by the Republic of Texas to carry mail from Independence to Nashville. Bell was married to the former Elizabeth Weaver, and they were the parents of eight sons and one daughter. This cemetery traces its beginnings to 1845, when William W. Bell died and was buried here by his family. Also interred in the graveyard are Elizabeth Weaver Bell (1804 - 1894) and five of the Bells' nine children: daughter Texana Bell Henry (1837 - 1859); sons Stephen (1823 - 1900), D. J. (1825 - 1899), Albert H. (1830 - 1880), and A. Jessie (1834 - 1856). There are five other marked graves of family members, as well as several unmarked burials. Family tradition states some of the unmarked graves may be those of slaves. The William W. Bell Cemetery Association, formed by Bell descendants in 1985, maintains the historic graveyard.

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Bells, TX

1871

Bells is on U.S. Highway 82 ten miles east of Sherman in east central Grayson County. Daniel Dugan settled in the area in 1835. Community development, however, did not occur until the early 1870s with the arrival of the Texas and Pacific and Missouri, Kansas and Texas railways. The community was called Dugansville, for the local pioneer family, from 1871 to 1878, and was renamed Bells (or Bell's), perhaps in reference to the area churches, in 1879. In the 1870s the community had a post office, nine stores, a mill, a cotton gin, and Corneilison School. The community grew up south of the railroad, and incorporated in 1881. By 1900 the community had 400 residents, twenty businesses, two schools, a number of churches, and a weekly newspaper, the North Texas Courant . By the mid-1920s the number of residents had grown to just over 600; businesses numbered thirty, including a bank. The community supported a high school and a grade school. The depression and World War II slowed the growth. Beginning in the 1950s, however, a steady increase in population resumed. In 1955 the population was just over 600; in 1990 it was 962, and in 2000 it was 1,190.

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Sports in Bells

🏆 STATE CHAMPIONS Class 2A · Softball · 2017–2018

Bells — UIL 2A Softball State Champions — 2 titles

Most recent: 2018 2A

Bells High School, a Class 2A institution in Bells, TX, has established a notable record in softball. The Lady Panthers have secured two UIL State Championships, claiming back-to-back titles in 2017 and 2018. These achievements highlight a period of strong performance for the program, bringing state-level recognition to the community.

The town of Bells, nestled in North Texas, takes pride in its high school sports. The success of the softball team reflects the dedication found within this close-knit community, where school events are a focal point. These championships are significant milestones for Bells High School athletics.

State titles
2 (2017–2018)
Most recent
2018
Class
2A
The moment

The 2018 Class 2A state championship represents a high point for Bells High School softball.

Sources: UIL State Championship Archives · SI High School (ScoreBook Live)

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