{"id":125137,"date":"2021-07-19T14:22:41","date_gmt":"2021-07-19T21:22:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2021\/07\/taiwan-semiconductor-company-plans-to-build-u-s-factory-to-meet-sustained-chip-demand"},"modified":"2021-07-19T14:22:41","modified_gmt":"2021-07-19T21:22:41","slug":"taiwan-semiconductor-company-plans-to-build-u-s-factory-to-meet-sustained-chip-demand","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2021\/07\/taiwan-semiconductor-company-plans-to-build-u-s-factory-to-meet-sustained-chip-demand","title":{"rendered":"Taiwan semiconductor company plans to build U.S. factory to meet sustained chip demand"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/taiwan-semiconductor-company-plans-to-build-u-s-factory-to-meet-sustained-chip-demand2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>TAIPEI \u2014Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Co Ltd (TSMC) signalled on Thursday plans to build new factories in the United States and <a class=\"\" href=\"https:\/\/www.autoblog.com\/tag\/japan\/\" data-ylk=\"elm: context_link;itc:0;pos:1;sec: donut-hole;cpos:0;\">Japan<\/a>, riding on a pandemic-led surge in demand for chips that power smartphones, laptops and cars.<\/p>\n<p>TSMC, which posted record quarterly sales and forecast higher revenue for the current quarter, said it will expand production capacity in <a class=\"\" href=\"https:\/\/www.autoblog.com\/tag\/china\/\" data-ylk=\"elm: context_link;itc:0;pos:1;sec: donut-hole;cpos:1;\">China<\/a> and does not rule out the possibility of a \u201csecond phase\u201d expansion at its $12 billion factory in Arizona.<\/p>\n<p>The world\u2019s largest contract chipmaker and a major Apple supplier also said it is currently reviewing a plan to set up a speciality technology wafer fabrication plant, or fab, in Japan.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>TAIPEI \u2014Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Co Ltd (TSMC) signalled on Thursday plans to build new factories in the United States and Japan, riding on a pandemic-led surge in demand for chips that power smartphones, laptops and cars. TSMC, which posted record quarterly sales and forecast higher revenue for the current quarter, said it will expand production [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":396,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11,1523,1512],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-125137","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-biotech-medical","category-computing","category-mobile-phones"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/125137","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/396"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=125137"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/125137\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=125137"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=125137"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=125137"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}