Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Co. has reached a significant milestone in its expansion into the US. Recent trial production at the company’s new Arizona facility has yielded results comparable to those of its established plants in Taiwan, according to Bloomberg, which cited a person familiar with the company who requested anonymity. This development is a positive sign for the chipmaker’s ambitious US project, which has faced delays and doubts about whether it could match the production efficiency of its Taiwanese operations.
Why is anyone building critical infrastructure in Arizona?
Arizona has fairly consistent and predictable weather, decently reliable power grids (with access to cleaner energy sources like solar, hydro, and nuclear), and is pretty seismically stable. Plus Phoenix has been trying to set itself up as a bit of a tech hub for a while now so you have access to an existing market of skilled labor plus a supply to fresh talent from ASU (and the other universities).
Thank you for your thoughtful answer to my sassy nonsense.
Cheap land and tax incentives to do so.
Why not?
Didn’t know they were starting with 4nm chips, that’s pretty impressive. I thought TSMC was keeping a more significant edge for their Taiwan fabs, but they’re only making 3nm.
If they’re making 3nm in Taiwan, and this unopened factory is 4nm, I imagine they already got 2nm or whatever is next already planned for Taiwan. So it could vary between 1 and 2 generations behind in that case.
