> The company has said it will make $100 billion in capital investments over three years through 2023.

>At the same time, "it will be very costly to manufacture in the U.S. and Japan," a member of the TSMC executive team said. The company is building a cutting-edge semiconductor facility in the U.S. state of Arizona and is considering opening its first Japanese chip plant in Kumamoto.

TSMC heed the call of US to build a new fab in AZ. It seem logical to raise their prices to meet this "demand". A fab in the US will not generate as much profit as Taiwan or China fab due to labor cost/benefits.