If you follow the semiconductor chip production industry, you know that Taiwan is the largest producer of high-tech chips, and Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Company (TSMC) is the most important in the world for many global technology companies.
Recently, there were reports that the US government, through a statement by Commerce Secretary Howard Lutnick, wants the US to increase its semiconductor chip production rate to 40 percent of global production within the next three years, and one of the ways is for Taiwan to move half of its production capacity to the United States.
Taiwan's Deputy Premier Cheng Li-chiun has said that this request is impossible to do because the country's semiconductor chip production will continue to grow, and secondly, TSMC has already opened a manufacturing plant (fab) in Arizona that will start operating in 2025 with a 4nm process, and additional processes (3nm and 2nm) are in the process of development.
TSMC in Taiwan will begin production of chips using its 2nm process this year, with major customers including Apple, AMD, Qualcomm and NVIDIA. The Taiwanese government has also stipulated that US factories will be able to produce semiconductor chips using processes introduced 1-2 years before the latest process, and therefore it is expected that TSMC's Arizona factory will only begin production of 3nm chips as early as the middle or end of this year.
