- TSMC investment of $ 100 billion for the manufacture of US semiconductors.
- $ 65 billion have already been invested in Phoenix, Arizona
- Tens of thousands of jobs could be created
Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Company (TSMC) has announced plans to invest at least $ 100 billion in the US semiconductor manufacturing industry in the next four years.
The movement is ready to finance three new manufacturing plants, two advanced packaging facilities and an R&D center, although the details of the planned locations have not yet been confirmed.
The company boasted that the project has become the “largest direct foreign investment in the history of the United States”, and adds to its existing investment of $ 65 billion in Phoenix, Arizona.
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In addition to advancing in the semiconductor market, as well as any other similar announcement, TSMC highlighted the positive impacts of its investment in the workforce. The company estimates that the creation of 40,000 construction jobs in the next four years, as well as “tens of thousands of high -tech and high payment jobs” in manufacturing and R&D D.
Its Arizona plant already employs more than 3,000 workers and supports the efforts of the United States to domesticate its supply chain.
TSMC also suggested that another $ 200 billion in indirect economic production could be achieved in the United States as a result of the announcement.
“In 2020, thanks to the vision and support of President Trump, we embarked on our trip to establish the advanced chips manufacturing in the United States. This vision is now a reality, ”said the CEO of the company’s CEO, Dr. CC Wei.
Trump had recently declared: “If they did [the chips] In Taiwan to send them here, they will have 25% or $ 30% or 50% or whatever the number … will only rise. In doing so here, there are no rates. “
The twice president also criticized Taiwan to monopolize the market, welcoming the Taiwanese company to its coasts to carry out business locally.
