Global Foundries, who has Abu Dhabi investment, has plants in the US, but their process technology is FAR behind TSMC.
GF is stuck at 12nm. TSMC is doing production at 5 nm.
re: “but their process technology is FAR behind TSMC.”
What’s your point?
The shortages are in IC designs that don’t require the high-tech fine geometries required for high density designs like TSMC or Intel are capable of ...