TSMC plans $12B US chip factory By Joseph Waring Share Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Company (TSMC) set plans to build a $12 billion semiconductor factory in the US, a major boost to government efforts to
Total spending on the project will be $12 billion with TSMC claiming it will directly create 1,600 jobs. Construction is planned to start in 2021 on what would be TSMC's second manufacturing site in the U.S. The factory will be focused on producing so-called 5-nanometer chips, the lates...
Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Co (TSMC) is reportedly nearing a deal to manufacture Nvidia’s latest AI chips at a new factory in the US which is expected to start volume production in 2025. Reuters reported if a deal is reached, the contract manufacturer would make Blackwell chips at a ...
Behind the scenes, executives have voiced frustration with US permitting processes, labor availability and cultural differences in workplace norms. Building chips at scale in America has proven far more expensive than in Taiwan, despite federal subsidies. TSMC's Arizona factory. Image credi...
TSMC, the world’s biggest semiconductor manufacturer, produces chips for companies including Apple, Intel and Nvidia. The company had already begun constructing three plants in Arizona after the Biden administration offered billions in subsidies. Its first factory in Arizo...
TSMC has previously invested in a chip factory in Arizona with an initial $12 billion investment, and last April it announced an additional investment of $25 billion to add a third factory at its Arizona facility by 2030 to bring its total investment there to $65 billion. ...
“TSMC had been talking to US officials as well as to Apple Inc., one of its largest customers, about building a chip factory in the US for some time, but the conversations gained momentum recently as concerns mounted about the fragility of the Asian supply chain, according to people famili...
Global worries about Taipei's plummeting relations with Beijing—which claims the self-ruled island as its territory—have fueled a US push to successfully woo the Taiwanese company into building a chip-making factory in Arizona. But the plant, one of the largest foreign investments in the United...
Its first factory in Arizona has started mass production of its 4-nanometer chips. Trump, who appeared with TSMC’s chief executive officer C. C. Wei at the White House, called it a “tremendous move” and “a matter of economic security.” “Semiconductors are the backbone of the 21st ...
The first factory at TSMC's Arizona complex began production in the fourth quarter of 2024 and wasrecently in talksto produce Nvidia (NVDA) Blackwell chips. Two plants currently under construction are expected to begin production in 2028 and “by the end of the decade,”...