4DS - Anything but Charting, page-5989

Supposedly creating 1600 jobs. What a slap in the face to the CCP and a very strategic move by Taiwan who chose to heavily invest in a winning side that will stand by them unlike the Brits who abandoned Hong Kong. TSCM could have invested domestically in Taiwan but chose to pump 12 billion dollars into a strategic project in the U.S. , 1000km away from silicon valley in the tech hub of Phoenix


The facility will utilize TSMC’s 5-nanometer technology for semiconductor wafer fabrication and have the capacity to produce 20,000 wafers per month. Construction is planned to begin in 2021 with production targeted to start in 2024. The Arizona facility will be the company’s second manufacturing operation in the United States.

“This announcement is fantastic news for Arizona and America, and bad news for China,” Sen. Martha McSally said.“Communist China has long sought to dominate the global semiconductor supply chain, which would create an overreliance on Beijing to create semiconductor chips that power everything from 5G to sophisticated weapons systems.

I know it won't be in operation for a while but they will no doubt be lining their ducks up at a time when 4ds is hopefully ready for handover. Planets are aligning ....