TSMC pledges to spend $100B on US chip facilities

Chipmeaker TSMC says its aim is to invest “at least” $ 100 billion “on chip producing plants in the United States in the next four years as part of an effort to expand the network of the semiconductor factory company.

President Donald Trump announced this news During a press conference on MondayThe TSMC’s cash will be funded for the construction of several new facilities in Arizona, TSMC chairman and CEO CC Wei said during the briefing.

“We’re going to create a lot of AI chips to support AI progress,” Wei said.

TSMC Has previously promised to pour the $ 65 billion pour US-based fabricated plant and Got up to $ 6.6 billion In grants from Chips lawA large biden administration-era law that tried to increase domestic semiconductor production. The new investment brought TSMC’s total investment to about $ 5 billion in the US chip industry to about $ 5 billion, Trump said in a prepared comment.

Over the years, TSMC has expressed concern over the production of US chip, and the TSMC specialized in the advanced chip packaging, especially critically criticized for AI chips, for which these chips have increased properly with AI Boom.

Trump has said that he will do after taking charge Improve tariffs on foreign chip production The US threatened to return the chip production in the United States and to end the Chips Act, which he has been criticized as insufficient. Experts have warned Trump’s outlook may be slow – or possible even harm – but the progress of the United States.

Daniel Newman, CEO of Futurum Group, Futcharam Group, says he hopes that TSMC’s investment will be delayed in meeting the duty or delay in meeting the specific requirements, which he said the administration would “win”.

Newman told TechCrunch via email, “Since the United States is moving forward with increased domestic production and tariffs on the horizon, a considerable promise of TSMC can serve as a strategic gesture of greeting,” Newman tells TechCranch through email.

TSMC, the world’s largest contract chip maker, already has several facilities in the United States, including a factory in Arizona, with a factory in the end of last year. However, the company currently reserves its most sophisticated facilities for Taiwan.

The US TSMC’s heavy Taiwanese presence is considered a strategic risk due to the growing threat of the Chinese government of the mainland. Trump and US Commerce Secretary Howard Lutnik TSMC has been reported to have pressed and operated Intel’s chip plants in the United States, which is surrounded Logistic challengeThe

Since taking office, Trump has created several White House presence to announce large infrastructure projects in the United States with Tech CEO and investors. OpenAA and Softbank in January Investment About half trillion on the domestic AI data center network. Just last week, Apple said it was planned Spend more than $ 500 billion To extend its US production footprint.

Promises tend to be light in details, however – and experts are Questions about their feasibilityThe