TSMC eyes a multibillion-dollar Texas campus for more AI chips
One of the buildings at TSMC’s Advanced Packaging Fab 2 in the Southern Taiwan Science Park, Tainan, photographed in May 2025. Credit: 4300streetcar / CC BY 4.0 via Wikimedia Commons (cropped) TSMC is weighing a new Texas campus of multiple fabs, each costing at least $20B, contingent on Congress extending a 35% manufacturing tax credit. Its only European plant, the Dresden joint venture, totals above EUR 10B and will run 28nm to 12nm nodes rather than anything used for AI.
- ▪One of the buildings at TSMC’s Advanced Packaging Fab 2 in the Southern Taiwan Science Park, Tainan, photographed in May 2025.
- ▪Credit: 4300streetcar / CC BY 4.0 via Wikimedia Commons (cropped) TSMC is weighing a new Texas campus of multiple fabs, each costing at least $20B, contingent on Congress extending a 35% manufacturing tax credit.
- ▪Its only European plant, the Dresden joint venture, totals above EUR 10B and will run 28nm to 12nm nodes rather than anything used for AI.
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One of the buildings at TSMC’s Advanced Packaging Fab 2 in the Southern Taiwan Science Park, Tainan, photographed in May 2025. Credit: 4300streetcar / CC BY 4.0 via Wikimedia Commons (cropped) TSMC is weighing a new Texas campus of multiple fabs, each costing at least $20B, contingent on Congress extending a 35% manufacturing tax credit. Its only European plant, the Dresden joint venture, totals above EUR 10B and will run 28nm to 12nm nodes rather than anything used for AI. TSMC is eyeing a Texas campus worth tens of billions, to build more AI chips. Each fab on it would cost at least $20B. Its entire European project is budgeted above EUR 10B. The company is looking at more overseas capacity, according to people familiar with its plans, as Bloomberg reported.
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