President Donald Trump introduced Monday alongside TSMC CEO C.C. Wei on the White Home that Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Firm will make investments an extra $100 billion in U.S. manufacturing amenities.
“This can create tons of of billions of {dollars} in financial exercise and enhance America’s dominance in synthetic intelligence and past,” Trump mentioned throughout a press convention, including the enlargement would generate between 20,000-25,000 jobs.
The funding builds on TSMC’s current $65 billion dedication for Arizona operations, creating what the corporate has tagged as “the biggest single overseas direct funding in U.S. historical past”, totaling $165 billion.
Over the following 4 years, TSMC will construct three further chip fabrication crops past the three already underway, two superior packaging amenities and a analysis middle on the Arizona advanced.
TSMC started high-volume manufacturing of 4-nanometer chips at its first Arizona facility in late 2024, marking the primary time chips of this grade have been made on U.S. soil. The corporate says its Arizona fab employs over 3,000 folks throughout its 1,100 acres of land.
The amenities will produce cutting-edge chips, TSMC mentioned, together with future 2-nanometer semiconductors essential for next-generation AI techniques, cell compute techniques, crypto mining tools, and different crucial infrastructure.
“Semiconductors are the spine of the twenty first century economic system,” Trump mentioned. “With out the semiconductors, there is no such thing as a economic system, powering every thing from AI to cars to superior manufacturing.”
The transfer comes amid intensifying U.S.-China competitors on the tech entrance, with the rising recognition of semiconductors as crucial infrastructure for nationwide safety and financial stability.
The funding additionally represents a strategic repositioning for TSMC, probably insulating it from disruptions attributable to U.S.-China tensions whereas securing its place within the crucial American market.
TSMC shares fell 4.2% to $172.9 on Monday, underperforming the tech-heavy Nasdaq 100’s 2.2% decline to twenty,425.
Nvidia, meanbwhile, plummeted 8.7% to $114.06 on the day, as a broader AI sector stoop, pushed by tariff considerations, continued to weigh on investor confidence.
Edited by Sebastian Sinclair
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