by Taipei, Taiwan (AP) -Taiwan’s President William Lai Ching-Te said that the massive investment of a semiconductor company in Arizona to build the “best model” for the efforts of the island of building computer chip supply lines that are not based on Chinese producers are in the concerns of the state governor-Katie-Hobbs.
Taiwan’s leading chip maker TSMC has committed 100 billion US dollars for the construction of three chip foundations, one F&E center and two packaging systems in Arizona, in addition to an earlier promise in which three chip casters in the federal state has to be built in the state, one of which has begun.
Lai and TSMC say that the latest mega investment is due to customer demand and not due to the pressure of President Donald Trump’s administration.
Trump previously said Taiwan took the US chip business away and he wanted it back.
At their meeting on Tuesday, Lai said that Taiwan and Arizona worked to build a “non -Red” losing chain that excluded suppliers from China, which threatened the military measures to assert their claims over the island.
TSMC said the development plans in the United States would not influence its work in Taiwan and that the company currently has 10,000 employees who research and develop 1.0 nanometers chips. Taiwan accounts for more than 90% of expanded computer chip production.
The United States does not recognize Taiwan as a country, but is the strongest supporter and the largest arms provider.
The news about the meeting was published on Wednesday by the official central news agency Taiwans.
The project is expected to create 40,000 building jobs in the next four years and tens of thousands of tech and manufacturing jobs, Hobbs’ office said in a press release sent before the meeting.
“I am enthusiastic about Arizona’s creation as an America’s center for advanced production, creates hundreds of thousands of well -paid jobs and brings billions of dollars into our state from dollar,” said Hobbs in the press release.
CNA cited Hobbs with the statement that the TSMC project “would not only contribute to the global further development of artificial intelligence and other technologies, but would also strengthen bilateral bonds”.
