TSMC Announces Another $100B Investment in USA
On 4 March 2025 during a press conference at the White House, Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Company (TSMC) CEO C.C. Wei announced a fresh USD 100 billion investment into USA.
The plan includes the implementation of three semiconductor fabs, two packaging plants and an R&D center. This $100B is in addition to the $65B announced earlier, bringing the total investment to USD 165 billion.
President Donald Trump called CEO C.C. Wei a legend and described TSMC as company that has gone where no company has gone before. He expects the new #FDI will create between 20,000 to 25,000 jobs, which are mostly highly paid positions and requiring state-of-the-art technical skills.
US Commerce Secretary Howard Lutnick also highlighted the successful application of tariff to bring investment and technology to the US. He also recalled that the Biden Administration granted TSMC a USD 6 billion funding under the #CHIPSAct.
The investment will most likely go to the state of Arizona where TSMC already has a fab with 3,000 employees. White House AI Tzar David Sachs underlined that the chips that TSMC goes into almost every product we use from cars to smartphones, as well as #AI servers. The USA is one of the largest chip markets in the world and TSMC’s American customers include AMD, Apple, Broadcom, Nvidia and Qualcomm.