The manufacture of Taiwan semiconductors will pour $ 100 billion to reinforce the manufacture of chips in the United States, President Donald Trump announced Monday.
The president described the investment as a “tremendous movement of the most powerful company in the world.” The new capital carries the total investment of TSMC in the USA. UU. To $ 165 billion and will be used to build five new manufacturing facilities in Arizona.
The TSMC announcement, which supplies semiconductors to people like NVIDIA and Apple for the use of artificial intelligence, supports the continuous efforts of the Trump administration to make the United States an artificial intelligence center.
Last month, Trump announced a multimillionaire infrastructure project with Oracle, OpenAi and Softbank. He has also made numerous calls to bring the production of semiconductors to the United States after much of the manufacturing industry moved abroad. Advancing in the production of semiconductors in the United States is a matter of economic and national security, Trump said Monday.
Trump has repeatedly called and accused Taiwan of stealing the US chips manufacturing business and promoted tariffs on semiconductor imports. The company’s chief of finance, Wendell Huang, told CNBC in January that he was sure that the new White House administration would continue to finance the company’s US ambitions.
TSMC has already advanced to expand its footprint in the USA. Before Monday’s announcement. The company committed $ 12 billion in 2020 to build its first US chips factory in Arizona, then increased that investment to $ 65 billion with a third factory. He has also obtained the support of the United States government through a subsidy of $ 6.6 billion of the United States Commerce Department.
A Nvidia spokesman told CNBC that the chips manufacturer “will completely use the TSMC global manufacturing network to improve our agility and supply resistance.”
