This news follows previous delays announced last year at TSMC’s first chips plant, which Liu partly blamed on US workers lacking specialized skills.
At Thursday’s news conference, Liu “reiterated” those complaints, Bloomberg reported, claiming that TSMC is still struggling to hire skilled workers in Arizona.
Last month, Commerce Secretary Gina Raimondo confirmed that the US had not yet awarded grants to commercial semiconductor facilities like TSMC because selecting a defense contractor first “was meant to emphasize the administration’s focus on national security,” The New York Times reported.
By funding BAE Systems, the Biden administration was likely moving quickly to decrease reliance on China-based chip supply chains for military purposes amid growing tensions between the two countries.
According to Bloomberg, TSMC announced it was building a “more modest plant” in Japan that’s on track to launch operations this year after the Japanese government promptly provided funding.
In December, Raimondo promised that “much larger grants for major semiconductor manufacturing facilities run by companies like Intel, Samsung,” or TSMC would be announced “in the coming months.”
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This news follows previous delays announced last year at TSMC’s first chips plant, which Liu partly blamed on US workers lacking specialized skills.
At Thursday’s news conference, Liu “reiterated” those complaints, Bloomberg reported, claiming that TSMC is still struggling to hire skilled workers in Arizona.
Last month, Commerce Secretary Gina Raimondo confirmed that the US had not yet awarded grants to commercial semiconductor facilities like TSMC because selecting a defense contractor first “was meant to emphasize the administration’s focus on national security,” The New York Times reported.
By funding BAE Systems, the Biden administration was likely moving quickly to decrease reliance on China-based chip supply chains for military purposes amid growing tensions between the two countries.
According to Bloomberg, TSMC announced it was building a “more modest plant” in Japan that’s on track to launch operations this year after the Japanese government promptly provided funding.
In December, Raimondo promised that “much larger grants for major semiconductor manufacturing facilities run by companies like Intel, Samsung,” or TSMC would be announced “in the coming months.”
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