Taiwan Chip Company to Build New Factory in Texas
GlobalWafers plans to build a new semiconductor factory in Texas, with construction starting later this year, the Taiwan-based company said June 27. It expects the 3.2 million square-foot factory, the largest of its kind in the U.S., to eventually produce 1.2 million wafers per month in what will be the first new such facility built in the U.S. in over two decades.
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The company hopes the factory will address the U.S.’s “supply chain resiliency issue,” CEO Doris Hsu said. “Instead of importing wafers from Asia,” GlobalWafers will “produce and supply wafers locally thereby reducing significant carbon footprint benefitting both customers and” the company.
Commerce Secretary Gina Raimondo called the announcement “critical to rebuilding the domestic semiconductor supply chain.” She said the U.S. is at a “make-or-break moment to expand domestic semiconductor production. Semiconductor firms need to make investment decisions by the fall to meet the enormous increased demand for chips.”