RE: The new chip plant being built in Phoenix is TSMC.
Yes. And Intel is doing the same.
I wonder what makes Arizona so attractive to these Chip companies....
All that sand? /jk
Intel has facilities in the southwest. I have an acquaintance who designed plants for them.
The weather is good. Transport is good. I imagine there is lots of silica nearby.
The thing about these plants is their lifecycle. They are amazingly short for their size. Because processing speed doubles so quickly, many plants need to be completely rebuilt in about 1/3 of the time of most any other manufacturing facility. They are also exceptionally automated. For plants of their physical size, they employ fewer people than, say, an auto facility of the same footprint.
It is great we are moving these to the US. The shortages have really killed some markets.