Taipei, Taiwan – Taiwan president William Lai Ching-Te said that the massive investment of a Taiwanese semiconductor company in Arizona is the “best model” for the island’s effort to build computer chip supply lines that do not depend on Chinese producers, in comments to the visiting governor of the state Katie Hobbs.
The main chips manufacturer of Taiwan, TSMC, has committed $ 100 billion to build three chips foundations, one RANDD Center and two packaging facilities in Arizona, in addition to an earlier promise to build $ 65 billion in three chips in the state, one of which operations has begun.
LAI and TSMC say the last mega investment It arose from the client’s demand and not the pressure of the administration of President Donald Trump.
Trump said previously that Taiwan had removed the US chips business. And that he wanted him back.
At their meeting on Tuesday, Lai said that Taiwan and Arizona were working to build a “non -red” supply chain that excluded China’s suppliers, which threatens military action to affirm their claim on the island.
TSMC has said that development plans in the US would not affect their work in Taiwan, and that the company currently has 10,000 employees investigating and developing nanometric chips of 1.0. Taiwan represents more than 90% of the advanced production of computer chips.
The United States does not recognize Taiwan as a country, but it is its best sponsor and its strongest arms supplier.
The news about the meeting were launched on Wednesday by the official Central News Agency of Taiwan.
The project is expected to create 40,000 construction jobs in the next four years and tens of thousands of jobs in technology and manufacturing, said the hobbs office in a press release sent before the meeting.
“I am excited by the appearance of Arizona as the center of the United States for advanced manufacturing, creating hundreds of thousands of well -paid jobs and bringing billions of dollars to our state,” Hobbs said in the statement.
CNA quoted Hobbs by saying that the TSMC project “would not only contribute to the global advance of artificial intelligence and other technologies, but also strengthened bilateral ties.”
