TSMC Arizona: From a $12 Billion Fab to a $265 Billion Gigafab Cluster
TSMC’s Arizona project began in 2020 as a planned US$12 billion, 5nm fab with production targeted for 2024. The first fab shifted to N4, was delayed to 2025 because of a shortage of skilled equipment-installation workers, and entered volume production in late 2024; customers including NVIDIA, AMD and Apple have since cited Arizona-made chips or products.
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