Chips and science 🦹‍♂️


The fab represents the arrival of advanced chip manufacturing in the United States and a test of whether the 2022 CHIPS and Science Act can help stabilize the semiconductor-industry supply chain for the United States and its allies.

In late October 2024, the company announced that yields at the Arizona plant were 4 percent higher than those at plants in Taiwan, a promising early sign of the fab’s efficiency. 

The current fab is capable of operating at the 4-nanometer node, the process used to make Nvidia’s most advanced GPUs. A second fab, set to be operational in 2028, plans to offer 2- or 3-nm-node processes. Both 4-nm and more advanced 3-nm chips began high-volume production at other TSMC fabs in 2022, while the 2-nm node will begin volume production in Taiwan this year. 

In the future, the company also has plans to open a third fab in the United States that will use more advanced technology. 



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