Taiwanese company TSMC is the world’s biggest independent semiconductor foundry, manufacturing wafers for companies like Nvidia and AMD. After much speculation surrounding whether the company would build another semiconductor fab in the US, it has now announced that it will in fact build one, with the plant's construction "planned to start in 2021" and "production targeted to begin in 2024". This news comes from TSMC itself, which published the announcement in its online newsroom (via VideoCardz), saying that it intends to “build and operate an advanced semiconductor fab in the United States with the mutual understanding and commitment to support from the US federal government and the State of Arizona.” It will be the second TSMC fab to reside in the US. There has been speculation about whether the semiconductor giant would build a US-based plant for a while, which has generally tended towards believing it wouldn’t do so. But now TSMC has announced it will build a fab in Arizona that will “utilise TSMC’s 5-nanometer technology for semiconductor wafer fabrication, have a 20,000 semiconductor wafer per month capacity, create over 1,600 high-tech professional jobs directly, and thousands of indirect jobs in the semiconductor ecosystem”.
Syndicated from here: 5nm production set to come from the US as TSMC announces another US plant
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