{"id":1738,"date":"2021-06-19T08:44:35","date_gmt":"2021-06-19T08:44:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.ict-nn.com\/?p=1738"},"modified":"2021-06-08T08:47:10","modified_gmt":"2021-06-08T08:47:10","slug":"tsmc-starts-work-on-12bn-arizona-semiconductor-fab-gets-funding-for-japanese-chip-rd","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ict-nn.com\/tsmc-starts-work-on-12bn-arizona-semiconductor-fab-gets-funding-for-japanese-chip-rd\/","title":{"rendered":"TSMC starts work on $12bn Arizona semiconductor fab, gets funding for Japanese chip R&#038;D"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Co has broken ground on its $12 billion semiconductor fab in Arizona.<\/p>\n<p>Japan has also approved a $338 million chip research project where TSMC will develop new chip technology in the country.<\/p>\n<p>The Arizona plant will produce wafers built on the company&#8217;s 5nm process. Previous reports said that TSMC is planning to expand the site with a further five fabs.<\/p>\n<p>Funded with revenue bonds and generous tax breaks, the first 12-inch wafer fab is expected to start volume production in 2024, with a planned output of 20,000 wafers a month. TSMC as a whole produces around 2.7 million wafers a month, but is investing heavily to expand production.<\/p>\n<p>In Japan, the company will split the costs of a $337 million project with the Japanese government. TSMC will work with more than 20 Japanese companies to develop chipmaking technologies in Japan.<\/p>\n<p>Research will primarily focus on 3D chip assembly, for denser semiconductors.<\/p>\n<p>Work on a trial facility will begin this summer at the National Institute of Advanced Industrial Science and Technology in the city of Tsukuba, about 60km northeast of Tokyo, with a launch date expected in 2022.<\/p>\n<p>Source: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.datacenterdynamics.com\/en\/news\/tsmc-starts-work-on-12bn-arizona-semiconductor-fab-gets-funding-for-japanese-chip-rd\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">datacenterdynamics.com<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Picture: Wikimedia Commons\/Peellden<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Co has broken ground on its $12 billion semiconductor fab in Arizona. Japan has also approved a $338 million chip research project where TSMC will develop new chip technology in the country. The Arizona plant will produce wafers built on the company&#8217;s 5nm process. Previous reports said that TSMC is planning to [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1739,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,18],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1738","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-datacenter","category-hardware"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ict-nn.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1738","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ict-nn.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ict-nn.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ict-nn.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ict-nn.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1738"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.ict-nn.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1738\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ict-nn.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1739"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ict-nn.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1738"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ict-nn.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1738"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ict-nn.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1738"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}