CHIP MAKER'S CHIN : TAIWAN PRECIS

 

TAIWAN Semiconductor Manufacturing Company, one of the world's biggest makers of advanced computer chips, announced plans in May 2020 to build a facility on the outskirts of  Phoenix.

Four years later, the company has yet to start selling semiconductors made in Arizona.

The Taiwanese company's presence in the state was viewed as an all-around win. It would increase advanced chip making in the United States and help diversify TSMC's manufacturing away from Taiwan.

TSMC has committed $65 billion to the project,  and in April, the Biden administration announced that the company would receive a $6.6 billion grant funded by the CHIPS and Science Act.

In Taiwan, TSMC has honed a highly complex manufacturing process : A network of skilled engineers and specialized suppliers, with the government support, etches microscopic pathways into pieces of silicon known as wafers.

The World Students Society thanks John Liu.