Chip maker TSMC said that in the coming four years in the US it is “at least” $ 100 billion in chip factories in the US as part of an attempt to expand the network of semiconductor factories of the company.
President Donald Trump announced the news During a press conference Monday. The cash infusion of TSMC will finance the construction of various new facilities in Arizona, CC Wei, chairman and CEO of TSMC during the briefing.
“We are going to produce a lot of AI chips […] To support AI preface, “said Wei.
TSMC previously promised to cast $ 65 billion In the US, manufacturing factories established in the US and has received up to $ 6.6 billion in subsidies from the Chips ACT, a large law of Biden administration that wanted to stimulate domestic semiconductor production. The new investment brings the total investments of the company in the American chip industry to around $ 165 billion, Trump said during the conference.
For years, the US has expressed concern about the near-monopoly of TSMC on chip production and has encouraged the company to move more of its production to the US, the types of advanced chip packaging in which TSMC is special, are particularly crucial for AI chips, the question for which has increased according to the AI Boom.
Trump has said he would do that since the appetizing Impose rates on the production of foreign chip To reduce chip production to the US and threatened to end the chips act, which he criticized as insufficiently. Experts have warned However, that Trump’s approach can delay the AI preliminary output – or possibly even harm.
Daniel Newman, CEO of the Futurum Group, a technical consultancy firm, said that he expected that the investment of TSMC will be linked to a delay in rates or contingent in complying with specific requirements that he said would be a “victory” for the administration.
“While the US continues to insist on increased domestic production and with rates on the horizon, a substantial commitment of TSMC could serve as a strategic gesture of goodwill,” Newman told Techcrunch via e -mail.
TSMC, the world’s largest contract chip maker, already has several facilities in the US, including a factory in Arizona that started mass production at the end of last year. But the company currently retains its most advanced facilities for its home country of Taiwan.
The US consider the heavy Taiwanese presence of TSMC as a strategic risk due to the growing threats of the Chinese government of the mainland. Trump and the American trade secretary Howard Lutnick reportedly forced TSMC to take over and manage the Chip plants of Intel in the US, which are affected by logistical challenges.
Since his appointment, Trump has made various performances by the White House with technical CEOs and investors to announce large American infrastructure projects. In January, OpenAi and Softbank promised to invest no less than half a billion dollars in a Domestic Data Center network. Last week Apple said it was planning to spend more than $ 500 billion to expand his American production printing print.
However, the commitments tend to be light the details – and have experts asked their feasibility.
