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There is a nuanced context missing, BLUF this is a good news story but nothing strategic has changed When talking about semiconductors you must discuss the tiers. There are the simpler tiers of semiconductors used for things like coffee pots, advanced ones used in iPhones and cars, and extremely advanced ones used in missile guidance systems. Each higher tier costs more and uses more resources per chip than the last For both quantity and quality, Taiwan maintains market dominance on all tiers of chips. The plant installed in Arizona was coordinated with Apple and consists mostly of those middle tier wafers to help satisfy Apples iPhone production. On a comparison basis this one plant is exceeding those in Taiwan on a 1 to 1 basis but Taiwan on the whole still produces more chips and supply’s all the chips of higher sophistication. For having one plant outside of Taiwan you would expect this plant to be a powerhouse based on the amount of resource investment required. For the record it has struggled to get to this point not because of money capital but human capital. TSMC had historically been hesitant to open a plant because founder Morris Chang worked in America for 30+ years. Chang created TSMC with a high emphasis on quality which requires highly specialized and trained employees with high retention rate in that role. This paradigm is incompatible with US labor trends- not just labor laws and incentives but workers want increased pay and upward mobility. The news prior to this announcement was the struggle to achieve the workers required to sustain production.

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