The latter reveals it's always evaluating potential locations for future overseas plans, but at the moment the Taiwanese foundry has no specific plan yet:
TSMC has always been evaluating potential locations for an advanced wafer fab overseas, including the US, but no specific plans have been put in place yet, according to the pure-play foundry.Yesterday, rumors talked about meetings between the US government, Apple and TSMC about setting up a chip plant in the US. Such a plant could satisfy some of Apple's chip demand.