Copper State turns silicon?
TSMC is said to be considering building up to five additional chip plants in Arizona as well as the one it announced last year. Under the previous president, the US government wooed the Taiwanese chipmaker into opening another semiconductor fabrication plant on US soil – the biz has a subsidiary in Washington state turning out 350 to 160nm parts. In May 2020, TSMC said it would construct a factory in Phoenix, Arizona, by 2024 capable of producing 20,000 5nm chip wafers every month. Now the manufacturing giant is planning to open up to five more in Arizona, according to Reuters, which heard from unnamed sources. CEO C.C. Wei hinted his corporation was increasing its collection of production plants to boost chip output during an earnings call in mid-April. “We have acquired land and started the construction of new facilities,» he said [ PDF]. «TSMC expects to invest about $100bn through the next three years to increase capacity to support the manufacturing and R&D of leading edge and specialty technologies.
