TriQuint Semiconductor Inc. is taking over a 38-acre facility ofMicron Technology Texas LLC.The plant contains a 48,500-sf class 1clean room, 10,000-sf class 100 clean room and about 84,000 sf ofoffice space. The purchase will facilitate an expansion ofTriQuint's wafer fabrication capacity and enable its 350-member TXdivision to relocate from leased space at the Dallas campus ofTexas Instruments. A TriQuint statement says the relocation will becompleted in two years.

TriQuint will undertake an upgrading of the purchased property,installing new process lines that will increase fabricationcapacity to make it larger than the current combined capabilitiesof its Dallas and Hillsboro, OR, facilities. The company says themove will enable the TX division to beef up personnel, possibly ashigh as 900. TriQuint Semiconductor Inc. is a leading internationalsupplier of a broad range of high-performance gallium arsenide(GaAs) integrated circuits. Tom Cordner, TriQuint VP and TriQuintSemiconductor Texas GM, will manage the Richardson facility and thetransition from the Dallas leased facility.

"When operational, the facility will give TriQuint a totalmanufacturing capacity well in excess of $1 billion," says SteveSharp, TriQuint President and CEO. Synthetic lease financing wasarranged through ABN AMRO Bank.