From Reuters via Singapore's Channel News Asia, May 16:
TAIPEI :Taiwanese silicon wafer manufacturer GlobalWafers said on Friday it would invest an additional $4 billion in the United States to meet growing customer demand there, as it officially opened its new $3.5 billion wafer facility in Texas.
"Our U.S. customers appear to have a very strong demand for U.S.-based production capacity,” Doris Hsu, Chairperson of GlobalWafers, a TSMC supplier, told reporters.
"Although tariffs (on semiconductors) have not been finalized…(U.S.) customers are hoping to secure local supply to reduce the potential uncertainties that tariffs may bring."
The plant, GlobalWafers' most advanced fully integrated 300mm (12 inch) silicon wafer facility, is the first of its kind built in the U.S. in more than two decades and is currently the only advanced wafer manufacturing site in the country....
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