Semiconductors: Taiwanese TSMC to invest 40 billion in the United States

It is much more than a factory.

This week, Taiwanese chipmaker TSMC announced that it was increasing its investments in the United States from $12 billion to $40 billion.

He will build not one but two factories in Arizona and create 4,500 jobs there.

It will produce the latest generation electronic components, a true industrial but also political revolution.

Indeed, Americans, Chinese and Europeans compete mercilessly in semiconductors, this vast family of electronic components that have become essential in almost all fields.

The automobile symbolizes the vital nature of access to these resources: without electronic components, manufacturers' factories come to a standstill.

But without chips, there are also no smartphones, computers, medical equipment, monitoring of electricity consumption and even less production, services in the cloud... In short, without chips, our societies modern ones would crumble.

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