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The U.S. Will Start Manufacturing Advanced Chips. A TSMC fab will open in Arizona in 2025, a test of the CHIPS Act
The U.S. Will Start Manufacturing Advanced Chips > A TSMC fab will open in Arizona in 2025, a test of the CHIPS Act
KATHERINE BOURZAC
27 DEC 2024
After years of planning, building, geopolitical wrangling, and workforce challenges, the world’s largest semiconductor foundry, Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Co. (TSMC) is officially starting mass production at an advanced chip-manufacturing facility in Phoenix in 2025. 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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KATHERINE BOURZAC
27 DEC 2024
After years of planning, building, geopolitical wrangling, and workforce challenges, the world’s largest semiconductor foundry, Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Co. (TSMC) is officially starting mass production at an advanced chip-manufacturing facility in Phoenix in 2025. 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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