On May 15 this year, with the encouragement of the United States, TSMC, the world's largest wafer manufacturer, announced that it will spend $12 billion to build a 5nm chip manufacturer in Phoenix, Arizona, USA.

On May 15 this year, with the encouragement of the United States, TSMC, the world's largest wafer manufacturer, announced that it will spend $12 billion to build a 5nm chip manufacturing plant in Phoenix, Arizona, the United States. Recently, TSMC's plan to build a factory in the United States has made new progress and has begun to recruit soldiers.

According to IT Home 11html on May 3, the recruitment information of the online job search platform LinkedIn (LinKedIn) shows that TSMC plans to recruit dozens of jobs such as yield improvement engineers, process integration engineers, etc., and the work location is Phoenix, Arizona, USA.

Industry insiders generally interpreted TSMC's large-scale recruitment of talents working in the United States as preparing for the construction and mass production of the US 5nm chip factory. According to TSMC's plan, the new factory is expected to start construction in 2021 and mass production of 5nm process chips in 2024.

It is worth noting that TSMC began to recruit soldiers to build factories in the United States, and also led a group of suppliers to go to the United States together. As early as early June this year, TSMC Chairman Liu Deyin said that will invite supply chain members to the United States together. The clean room factory system major manufacturers Han Tang, Fan Xuan and Automation Factory Mengli have all stated that they will go to the United States to build factories and strive to win orders from TSMC.

In addition, Interface News also confirmed on November 3 that Jingding Precision, a semiconductor equipment manufacturer under Hon Hai Group , has also announced that it is discussing the US factory building plan to provide services to large customers nearby, and details will be announced as early as the end of this year or early next year. means that as of now, at least 4 TSMC suppliers have chosen to build factories in the United States with them.

However, it costs a lot to build a factory with TSMC in the United States, which tests the financial status of the suppliers. If some suppliers spend huge amounts of money to build a factory in the United States but fail to get the order from TSMC, it may not be worth the loss.

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