The world’s largest contract chip maker’s latest $100 billion investment plan is aimed at meeting strong demand from U.S. customers, Wei said.
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This move aligns with the US strategy to strengthen domestic manufacturing and secure a larger share of the global semiconductor market.
Taiwan is under constant threat of Chinese invasion—something that could become more likely now that America has its own supply of computer chip components.
The writer is the author of ‘Chip War’ “I’m a little bit nervous,” admitted CC Wei, the CEO of Taiwanese chipmaker TSMC, taking the podium at the White House this week as he announced the largest foreign investment in American history.
TSMC is on a slippery slope. Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing , the world's largest chipmaker, on Monday pledged $100 billion in fresh funds to build factories in the United States. It also committed to set up a major research and development centre stateside,
Stanford's David Fedor praises TSMC and C.C. Wei's Oval Office meeting as a strategic win for Taiwan
TSMC unveiled plans to nearly triple its investment in the United States to US$165 billion, a move that reshapes the global chip industry landscape amid surging artificial intelligence demand and intensifying US-China technological competition.
Trump lauded plans by companies such as Apple, TSMC and OpenAI to invest hundreds of billions of dollars in new data centers and chip plants to push artificial intelligence forward. [The Wall Street J
Taiwan Economy Minister Kuo Jyh-huei said on Thursday that chipmaker TSMC would need government permission for any overseas joint ventures, but the government will not interfere in its decisions.
There has to be some government approval first Taiwan's Economy Minister, Kuo Jyh-huei, emphasised that TSMC must secure government approval for any overseas joint ventures. However, he clarified that there are no restrictions on producing advanced chips abroad,
Some of the $500 billion that Apple pledged Monday to invest in the U.S. will go to the massive Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Company factory in Phoenix.
Micron Technology Inc. has named former TSMC chairman Mark Liu to its board of directors, marking his first board appointment at an international semiconductor firm since stepping down from TSMC.
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