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TSMC Pledges To Spend $100 Billion On US Chip Facilities (techcrunch.com) 67

Posted by BeauHD from the AI-revolution dept.
An anonymous reader quotes a report from TechCrunch: Chipmaker TSMC said that it aims to invest "at least" $100 billion in chip manufacturing plants in the U.S. over the next four years as part of an effort to expand the company's network of semiconductor factories. President Donald Trump announced the news during a press conference Monday. TSMC's cash infusion will fund the construction of several new facilities in Arizona, C. C. Wei, chairman and CEO of TSMC, said during the briefing. "We are going to produce many AI chips to support AI progress," Wei said.

TSMC previously pledged to pour $65 billion into U.S.-based fabrication plants and has received up to $6.6 billion in grants from the CHIPS Act, a major Biden administration-era law that sought to boost domestic semiconductor production. The new investment brings TSMC's total investments in the U.S. chip industry to around $165 billion, Trump said in prepared remarks. [...] TSMC, the world's largest contract chip maker, already has several facilities in the U.S., including a factory in Arizona that began mass production late last year. But the company currently reserves its most sophisticated facilities for its home country of Taiwan.
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  • After the debacle with Ukraine, its unlikely that Taiwan will get any support from US when needed. TSMC will be smart to gtfo of Taiwan eventually.

    • This is a rather stupid take. (Score:1)

      by Anonymous Coward
      But I've come to expect this from Slashdot users.

      • But I've come to expect this from Slashdot users.

        Why is it stupid? Why would reversing a policy of helping Ukraine fend off Russia not - at least possibly - indicate a similar view toward helping Taiwan fend off China?

        Also, art not thou a "Slashdot user" as well, Mister Anonymous Coward?

        • Re: (Score:2)

          by kenh ( 9056 )

          Why is it stupid? Why would reversing a policy of helping Ukraine fend off Russia not - at least possibly - indicate a similar view toward helping Taiwan fend off China?

          You know the Ukraine story is a bit bigger than the 10 minute video clip, right?

          You know that Ukraine twice agreed to sign the Minerals Agreement and twice refused at the last minute BEFORE Zelinski flew to DC last week, right?

          You know that every European country that has given aid to Ukraine has secured repayment terms BEFORE giving Ukraine aid, right?

          You know that the aid the US has sent Ukraine, hundreds of billions of dollars so far, was given with no agreement to ever repay any of it, right?

          You know th

        • It's not stupid so much as short-sighted and willfully ignorant. Trump plays hardball with negotiations. People should have noticed this by now. He wrote books about it. Every time he talks to another leader, we get all this "oh no, he broke the world" nonsense, and then the other side comes back and agrees.

          Ukraine has just come back to say they are ready to make peace and sign the mineral deal. Trump's approach worked again.

      • This is a rather stupid take. But I've come to expect this from Slashdot users.

        Then you are ignorant of basic engineering and manufacturing. Regional manufacturing is a type of "second sourcing". Regional disasters have impacted chip manufacturing in the past. Having multiple manufacturing facilities around the world alleviate the regional single source risk.

        Yes, "second source" often refers to having a second company license and manufacture. This is usually to avoid the risk of one company failing financially. The practice addresses numerous types of risks, corporate, regional, po

    • There's a lot of suspicious downvoting on the comments for this story.

    • After the debacle with Ukraine, its unlikely that Taiwan will get any support from US when needed. TSMC will be smart to gtfo of Taiwan eventually.

      Ah yes, modded down to zero: I see some dupes / shills / apologists are trying to paint the site red-as-in-Republican. Well, I came to say pretty much the same thing, so maybe I'll get modded down too!

      Even if you don't believe that Trump is a Soviet asset - and therefore somewhat friendly to China as well - you should at least accept that American military support for any mission other than exterminating the Palestinians or annexing Canada is now highly unlikely.

      So yes, TSMC's move can reasonably be viewed

  • Contributions? (Score:3, Insightful)

    by fluffernutter ( 1411889 ) on Monday March 03, 2025 @06:44PM (#65208487)
    Remember when Foxconn was coming? I don't see anything about employing Americans in this. Will they contribute anything to America or just take up space? Conservatives so easily call things like this a win. They get excited about rich people getting richer I guess.

  • Silverback with empathy disorder (Score:3)

    by VaccinesCauseAdults ( 7114361 ) on Monday March 03, 2025 @06:44PM (#65208495)
    I love how all these corporations are making these token gestures for newly elected Silverback. America is hilarious.
  • With the lead time required to build one of these factories all the have to do is look like they are going to build until the administration changes then it's back off-shore.

  • With a 25% increase in the cost of the machines? (Score:5, Insightful)

    by Teun ( 17872 ) on Monday March 03, 2025 @07:20PM (#65208585)
    The most needed machines (ASML) are imported and they will soon be 25% more expensive...

    • Orange jesus has assured me that the other country pays the tariff. No worries!

      What the party of small government doesn't realize is that once the 25% tariffs are in place, everyone else can automatically raise their prices 20% and STILL be cheaper. But I'm sure all that will trickle down any day now...

  • Will this be like when Foxconn promised to build a large US manufacturing facility last time Trump was president? As far as I know, all that ever came of that was a bunch of photo ops. Or Apple contracting a company to build the "dustbin" Mac Pro in Texas? That failed with the company blaming it on being unable to hire skilled workers who'd accept minimum wage.

    • https://www.tsmc.com/static/ab... [tsmc.com]

      Pasted the same link to the other guy that asked the exact same question before you did.

    • Re: (Score:2)

      by tlhIngan ( 30335 )

      Or Apple contracting a company to build the "dustbin" Mac Pro in Texas? That failed with the company blaming it on being unable to hire skilled workers who'd accept minimum wage.

      There's nothing skilled in putting tab A into slot B assembly. You can tell anyone off the street to do it.

      Manufacturing is basically unskilled work at the level of consumer electronics because they're just slapping parts together and using a screwdriver or glue.

      Anyhow, the big problem with the Mac Pro wasn't that they couldn't get

  • That TSMC are the same company that install nets outside their building to catch the suicide jumpers, and bounce them back into their miserable underpaid and overworked lives.

    . It's a bit like Apple using slave Labor and blood minerals yet still getting praise, and Bezos treating workers like shit yet still be photographed with a bevy of Hollywood's most glamous beauties, and don't get me started on Gates. Wealth and success seems to make the mud not stick.

  • ASML (Score:3)

    by commodore73 ( 967172 ) on Monday March 03, 2025 @11:47PM (#65209189)
    Will ASML still sell products within the USA by then?
  • With Trump starting tariffs will Chipmaker TSMC actually do anything ?
  • All of them have been. Carrier said they would keep jobs in Indiana, then moved them to Mexico. Foxconn took the millions of incentives from Wisconsin to build a TV factory, then did absolutely nothing. Nothing will come of this TSMC pledge, either, unless TSMC really sees this as a strategy to stay alive if China invades. It would make sene for TSMC to escape to Europe because ASML is there.

    Trump is too stupid to understand anything.
  • This is good news. Entirely good. Yet, how many people here are just looking for some excuse to condemn it? Pathetic.

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