TSMC begins producing 4-nanometre chips in Arizona, Raimondo says
In April, TSMC agreed to expand its planned investment by US$25 billion to US$65 billion and to add a third Arizona fab by 2030
Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Co (TSMC) has begun producing advanced four-nanometre chips for US customers in Arizona, Commerce Secretary Gina Raimondo told Reuters, a milestone in the Biden administration’s semiconductor efforts.
In November, Commerce finalised a US$6.6 billion grant to TSMC’s US unit for semiconductor production in Phoenix, Arizona.
“For the first time ever in our country’s history, we are making leading edge four-nanometer chips on American soil, American workers – on par in yield and quality with Taiwan,” Raimondo told Reuters in an interview saying it had begun in recent weeks.
“That’s a big deal – never been done before, never in our history. And lots of people said it couldn’t happen,” Raimondo said of the previously undisclosed production start.
A spokesperson for TSMC, the world’s largest contract chipmaker and a major supplier to Apple and Nvidia which reports earnings next week, declined to comment Friday.
In April, TSMC agreed to expand its planned investment by US$25 billion to US$65 billion and to add a third Arizona fab by 2030.
