TSMC secures subsidies to build third fab in Arizona
TSMC secures subsidies to build third fab in Arizona
2024-04-21
U.S. President Joe Biden has announced a US$6.6 billion grant to Taiwan’s top chip manufacturer for semiconductor production in Arizona, which includes a third facility that will bring the tech giant’s investment in the U.S. state to US$65 billion. Voice of America’s White House correspondent Anita Powell reports.
A single semiconductor transistor is smaller than a grain of sand. But billions of them, packed neatly together on a chip, can connect the world, control weapons of war, and, someday, even drive your car. But U.S. production of this American-born technology has fallen off in recent decades.
Andy Wang
Northern Arizona University
As a nation, we used to produce 40% of microchips for the whole world. Now we produce less than 10%.
The Biden administration announced US$6.6 billion in funding for the world’s top chipmaker to build a third facility in the state of Arizona. Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Company says it will put the U.S. on track to produce 20% of the world’s leading-edge semiconductors by the end of this decade. The funding comes from the bipartisan 2022 CHIPS and Science Act, which President Joe Biden highlighted that year in a visit to TSMC’s first Arizona facility.
Joe Biden
US president
American manufacturing is back, folks. American manufacturing is back.
Engineers say the legislation addresses a key weakness in American chip manufacturing.
Todd Achilles
University of California, Berkeley
We’ve just gotten in the cycle of the last 15 to 20 years, where innovation has slowed down. It’s all about financial results, investor payouts, and stock buybacks, and we’ve lost that innovation muscle. And the CHIPS Act, pulling that together with the CHIPS Act is the perfect opportunity to restore that.
But, they say, America urgently needs talent. The White House says this new investment could create 25,000 construction and manufacturing jobs. Are there enough workers to feed this need?
Zachary Holman
Arizona State University
Our engineering college is the largest in the country, with over 33,000 enrolled students, and still we’re hearing from companies across the semiconductor industry that they’re not able to get the talent they need in time.
TSMC in 2022 broke ground on a facility that makes some of the world’s most advanced chips. With each jump, chip production can get more and more complex and expensive. Can the country that made the mighty chip keep up? Biden’s betting on it.
For Levi Stallings in Flagstaff, Arizona, Anita Powell, VOA News, Washington.
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台積電獲拜登政府補助 亞利桑那州建第3廠
2024-04-21
台積電宣布獲得美國晶片法案，高達66億美元補助，計劃在亞利桑那州設立第3座晶圓廠，這也使得台積電總投資金額，來到650億美元，來自美國之音的報導。
一個半導體電晶體比一粒砂還小，但是，數十億個電晶體放在一顆晶片上，就可以連接全世界、控制戰爭武器，甚至有一天可能開動你的汽車。然而，幾十年來，美國生產這種原創技術的比率已經下滑。
[[北亞利桑那大學 Andy Wang]]
“作為一個國家，我們曾經生產全球40%的微型晶片，現在，我們生產的比例不到10%”
拜登政府宣布，提供全球頂尖晶片製造商台積電66億美元資金，在亞利桑那州建立第三廠。台積電表示，這將使美國到本世紀末，能生產全球20%的先進半導體。這筆資金來自2022年的美國晶片法案，美國總統拜登在當時參訪台積電位於亞利桑那州的第一廠時，特別強調了這一點。
[[美國總統 拜登]]
“美國製造業已經回來了，朋友們，美國製造業已經回來了”
工程師表示，該法案解決了美國晶片製造的一個關鍵弱點。
[[加利福尼亞大學 Todd Achilles]]
“我們在過去的15到20年間，陷入創新趨緩的循環。這跟財務結果、投資者回報和股票回購有關，我們已經失去了那種創新的動力。而美國晶片法案，以及透過美國晶片法案的整合，讓我們有絕佳的機會恢復這一點”
然而，專家表示，美國迫切需要人才。白宮認為這項新投資可能創造25，000個建築和製造業的工作機會，市場是否有足夠的人力呢?
[[亞利桑那州立大學 Zachary Holman]]
“我們的工程學院是全國最大的，有超過33，000名學生，但是，我們仍然聽到來自半導體業界反應，無法及時找到需要的人才”
2022年，台積電在亞利桑那州打下了基礎，隨著生產的提升，晶片生產將變得越來越複雜和昂貴，美國真的能急起直追嗎？拜登打賭他能。
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