5 Texas Cities Bid for Consortium: The...

5 Texas Cities Bid for Consortium: The cities submitted incentive packages to lure U.S. Memories Inc., a $1-billion computer chip consortium that plans to eventually employ 3,200 people. Austin, Bryan-College Station, Houston and San Antonio made bids; a bid from North Texas included Arlington, Dallas, Ft. Worth, Grand Prairie, McKinney and Lewisville. The consortium, formed to regain U.S. control of the worldwide computer memory chip market from the Japanese, has said it would focus on nine states in selecting a home. Besides Texas, they are Arizona, California, Colorado, Massachusetts, Missouri, New York, North Carolina and Oregon. A decision is expected by year-end.