NXP Semiconductors - EB site
Large load · 3501 ED BLUESTEIN BLVD., Austin, TX
NXP runs two semiconductor campuses in Austin, Texas: the Oak Hill campus in Southwest Austin and an East Austin campus on the east side off US 183. Community Impact's March 2025 update states that NXP operates two local facilities. A 2023 incentive proposal described a local headcount of more than 2,700 employees, and the Austin Monitor reported that the company has been in Austin since 1974. A $290.8 million upgrade plan for both campuses was dropped after NXP ended its Chapter 380 agreement with the city in fall 2024. Austin Energy serves the company under a separate rate arrangement.
Overview
NXP's Austin footprint is two campuses, one at Oak Hill in Southwest Austin and one on the east side off US 183. Community Impact reported in 2023 that the chipmaker's local headcount was more than 2,700 employees across both plants, and that the city estimated NXP's operations have an annual economic impact of $560 million. The Austin Monitor reported that the company, which has been in Austin since 1974, operates two facilities there. The 2025 Community Impact update repeated that NXP operates two local facilities, including the Oak Hill campus in Southwest Austin.
Profile
- Project Live Oak and the 2024 termination
- Project Live Oak was NXP's plan to invest $290.8 million in its two Austin campuses and add 53 jobs. The Oak Hill share was $148.6 million to retrofit production lines, with 32 jobs; the East Austin share was $142.2 million for new equipment, with 21 jobs. Austin City Council voted in September 2023 to back a Chapter 380 economic development agreement tied to the project. NXP later ended the deal, citing complications with its application for federal CHIPS and Science Act funding. A company spokesperson said the CHIPS effort is now over, and NXP has applied to the Texas Semiconductor Innovation Fund for local projects, according to city records.
- Austin Energy rate settlement
- Austin Energy serves NXP's Austin campuses under a separate rate arrangement. A KXAN report says the utility reached an agreement with Samsung and NXP on a reduction in their utility rates, and that Austin Energy agreed to cut its revenues by $42 million and pass that through to ratepayers in the form of rate relief. A hearing examiner had proposed a $64 million reduction, but that plan would have mostly gone to medium and large commercial customers, which would have excluded Samsung and NXP, who have their own rate. The settlement keeps intervenors from appealing to the PUC until 2020, so the report predates that date.
Facility
- Activity
- Semiconductor chip manufacturing
- Industry
- Manufacturing
- Site type
- Facility
- Operating status
- Operating
Timeline
- Sep 18, 2023
- Community Impact reports Austin City Council was poised to approve an economic development agreement with NXP for a multiyear expansion of its Austin facilities.
Child care in focus as Austin officials consider economic deal for $291M NXP expansion | Central Austin | Community Impact
- Mar 6, 2025
- Community Impact reports NXP terminated the Austin economic deal the previous fall, which would have covered more than $290 million in upgrades.
Chipmaker NXP ends Austin economic deal and $290M plans, seeks new state project funding | Central Austin | Community Impact