TSMC rides AI demand to raise revenue forecast, says no to US joint venture
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So you wouldn’t get the signal you hoped for.
Making distinct URLs for each different headline would solve that problem, but I think you’d get flagged for duplicate content across your site. SEO would suffer, unless I’m mistaken. We’d need an SEO expert to chime in.
In reality, editors and authors who have been doing this for years already know how to make titles into clickbait efficiently. They know what works best from experience and hundreds or thousands of personal trials.
> "So far we did not change any of our original plans of expansion of our overseas fabs. We continue to expand in Arizona, in Kumamoto, and maybe in future in Europe. No change in our strategy. We continue in our current practice,"
So it is not a sign of a weakening relationship or anything, just a decision not to start a new project (which, I mean, if they were going to start a new joint project with the US, I guess reporters wouldn’t have to prompt them for info, right? It would be broadcast all over the place).
They are still moving ahead in Arizona.
> TSMC is spending $65 billion on three plants in the U.S. state of Arizona and has other new factories in operation or planning stages in Japan and Germany, which have partner investors.
> Asked if TSMC would consider a joint venture in the United States following Trump's comments, Wei said no.
> "So far we did not change any of our original plans of expansion of our overseas fabs.
> We continue to expand in Arizona, in Kumamoto, and maybe in future in Europe. No change in our strategy. We continue in our current practice," he added.
I suppose technology transfer works one way only. How about selling ASML wafer steppers in Europe only, until Europe has a functioning chip industry?
https://semiwiki.com/semiconductor-manufacturers/333584-how-...
"TSMC and Philips have deep historical ties. In fact, TSMC may not have existed without Philips. In the 1980s TSMC was established as a joint venture with Philips Electronics, the government of Taiwan, and other private investors. Several semiconductor companies were approached by Morris Chang for funding including semiconductor giants Intel and Texas Instruments but neither chose to participate. Both Intel and TI are now TSMC customers so it came full circle."
ASML is also a Philips spinoff from the time in which large European corporations sold off their IP to basically anyone. So the Trump quote in the Reuters article is wrong, in that not 100% of the U.S. chip industry was stolen; but you can bet there was technology transfer from Philips (European chip industry) to TSMC in the beginning.