U.S. senator John Cornyn says he is “intrigued” about a proposed project on the Texas A&M system’s RELLIS campus.

Cornyn told Texas reporters Thursday (May 2) about a team from A&M proposing to the Commerce Department, a computer chip facility that includes research and development and production of semiconductors.

Cornyn says Congress has delegated to the Commerce Department, the authority to consider the proposal under recent federal legislation giving subsidies to increase the domestic production of computer chips.

Cornyn said he learned more about the project during a meeting this week with A&M system chancellor John Sharp.

Click below to hear comments from John Cornyn, visiting with WTAW’s Bill Oliver on May 2nd, 2024: