Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Company, which counts Apple and Nvidia as clients, produces half the world s chips, used in everything from smartphones to satellites and increasingly to power AI technology.
Japan turning to TSMC for help on an industry it once dominated reflects the Taiwan chipmaker's dominant position in the foundry business and Tokyo's heightened concern over China's growing prowess in a wide swathe of technology.
Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Company (TSMC) has announced plans to build a second fab in Japan, will make chips on 6nm and 7nm-class process tech.
TSMC, the world s largest contract chipmaker, is frustrated in Arizona, the sources said, where it has struggled to recruit workers for the gruelling chipmaking trade and faced pushback from unions on efforts to bring in workers from Taiwan.