Arizona is where the US has its major electronics industry, aerospace and defense manufacturing operations, as well as an IC industry cluster where Intel, Raytheon, Microchip, ON semiconductor, VLSI, Freescale, NXP, STMicroelectronics, Honeywell, Marvel, Amkor, Philips and Western Digital operate their plants.
With TSMC likely to be involved in the IC industry cluster in Arizona, a bigger and complete local ecosystem could take shape, Digitimes Research believes. For the pure-play foundry itself, ensuring its business model and supply chain ecosystem locally is also a must for its fab project.
TSMC 5nm plant in Arizona could reshape global supply chain
Posted on Tuesday, May 19 2020 @ 11:37 CEST by Thomas De Maesschalck