• Mashup Score: 10

    In December last year, Apple CEO Tim Cook traveled to Phoenix, stood with President Joe Biden in front of a high-profile factory Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Co. was constructing and said the facility would produce chips for the iPhone maker. The comments seemed to commit Apple to aid …

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    • No matter what happens with #TSMC's high-profile facility in Phoenix, many cutting-edge chips it produces for Apple, Nvidia, AMD and Tesla will still require assembly in Taiwan https://t.co/0F2DkB31lD @tnatw #appleevent https://t.co/FiwaFb9reu

  • Mashup Score: 2

    TSMC could hardly achieve profitable mass production of 5/4/3nm chips at its new plant under construction in the US, and will find it a tough challenge to transfer part of its huge construction costs to customers, according to semiconductor equipment supply chain sources.

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    • #TSMC's new wafer fab in Arizona reportedly has been delayed, while the foundry also has to tackle serious manpower shortages, soaring costs and emerging education and adaptation issues involving Taiwanese and foreign employees ⁦@tnatw⁩ https://t.co/GdAusTeeci