{"id":56795,"date":"2026-07-16T20:00:52","date_gmt":"2026-07-16T20:00:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/tsmc-pledges-another-100bn-to-expand-us-production-in-arizona\/"},"modified":"2026-07-16T20:00:52","modified_gmt":"2026-07-16T20:00:52","slug":"tsmc-pledges-another-100bn-to-expand-us-production-in-arizona","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/tsmc-pledges-another-100bn-to-expand-us-production-in-arizona\/","title":{"rendered":"TSMC pledges another $100bn to expand US production in Arizona"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Wei did not give a timeline of when the new plants were likely to be built, saying only that it would depend on the &#8220;market situation&#8221;. The new plants would add to the eight already being built or planned.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;We believe this investment will help to further foster the development of the US semiconductor ecosystem, strengthen the supply chain, and support an increasing number of high-tech, high-paying jobs in the United States,&#8221; Wei said.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">President Trump wants to boost US production of semiconductor chips, which are found in machines ranging from cars to smartphones, and has been a priority for the US since shortages during the Covid-19 pandemic exposed supply chain risks.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">He has previously attributed a decision by TSMC last year to expand its investments in the US to his threats of tariffs on Taiwan and on the global semiconductor business.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">In January this year, the US said it had agreed <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/news\/articles\/c3dmpr37yxlo\" class=\"ssrcss-1e0jzsh-InlineLink e1kn3p7n0\">to cut tariffs on goods from Taiwan to 15%<\/a> in exchange for hundreds of billions of dollars in investment aimed at boosting domestic production of semiconductors.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Welcoming the plans, Commerce Secretary Howard Lutnick said: &#8220;President Trump&#8217;s leadership is driving companies to invest in American manufacturing. <\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;TSMC&#8217;s announcement of an additional $100 billion investment following our historic deal on trade and investment with Taiwan will create tens of thousands of American jobs and bring advanced semiconductor manufacturing back to America.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\"><i class=\"ssrcss-xbdn93-ItalicText e5tfeyi2\">Additional reporting by Osmond Chia<\/i><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/news\/articles\/c62x8ldxr7eo?at_medium=RSS&#038;at_campaign=rss\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Wei did not give a timeline of when the new plants were likely to be built, saying only that it would depend on the &#8220;market situation&#8221;. The new plants would add to the eight already being built or planned. &#8220;We believe this investment will help to further foster the development of the US semiconductor ecosystem, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":56796,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[61],"tags":[16000,16001,7339,2976,4412,15999],"class_list":["post-56795","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-economy","tag-100bn","tag-arizona","tag-expand","tag-pledges","tag-production","tag-tsmc"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/56795","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=56795"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/56795\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":56797,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/56795\/revisions\/56797"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/56796"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=56795"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=56795"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=56795"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}