TSMC has found a way to avoid US tariffs. Although 100,000 million dollars will have to spend

Trump wins. And TSMC, actually, too. During the last two years we have spoken in dozens of articles of The three semiconductor factories as a avant -garde that this Taiwanese company is getting ready in Arizona (USA). Approximately will be spent on them 65,000 million dollarsalthough they will cost much more (each high integration chip production plant costs approximately 30,000 million). The rest of the money subsidies will be provided approved by the administration led by Joe Biden.

For TSMC it is crucial to develop its integrated circuit production infrastructure beyond Taiwan’s borders. The only way to hold your business if in the future it is triggered A war conflict with China It is precisely having a very solid network of factories outside the island. And, if possible, out of Asia. In any case, there is another reason why TSMC is very interested in having more chips plants in the US: tariffs approved by the administration led by Donald Trump.

Tariffs are strengthening the US technological ecosystem

At the end of last January Donald Trump launched a warning Very forceful to TSMC: “In the very close future we will impose tariffs on foreign production of computer chips, semiconductors and pharmaceutical products to return the manufacture of these essential goods to the US (…) went to Taiwan; now we want them to return. We do not want to give them billions of dollars in the ridiculous Biden program. They already have thousands of dollars. money;

Although this statement is expressly addressed to TSMC, the Trump government ensures that it will impose tariffs on all electronic devices that incorporate chips produced abroad. They belong or not to US companies. This decision has caused all the large US technology companies to rush with the administration with the purpose of drawing a plan that allows them to dodge tariffs. Apple is one of them.

Just a week ago those of Cupertino announced that They will invest 500,000 million dollars in the US During the next four years to dodge the threat of tariffs. This money will be destined, among other purposes, to the construction of a new server factory for artificial intelligence (AI) In Houston, at the point of a training center in Detroit and the creation of 20,000 jobs. This is the context in which TSMC has just confirmed that something similar is going to do.

And it is that a few hours ago CC Wei, the president and general director of TSMC, Donald Trump and Howard Lutnick, the US Secretary of Commerce, They have announced that this manufacturer of integrated circuits will invest at least 100,000 million dollars in the construction of five new semiconductor production plants in the US. These facilities are added to which TSMC is already making a point in Arizona (the first of these three factories It has already started chips production).

Three of the new five floors will be integrated avant -garde circuit factories, and two of the facilities will be dedicated to the advanced chips packaging. In addition, a research and development center will be ready. Presumably these plants will create, according to TSMC, about 40,000 jobs. Anyway, everyone wins. The US government is achieving its purpose: drastically limiting its dependence on chips manufactured abroad and controlling 40% of global semiconductor production. And TSMC protects itself against a possible future conflict between China and Taiwan, and dodges US tariffs.

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