Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing’s chip success rate is somehow even higher in the US - Sherwood News

In an important breakthrough for US chip production, Bloomberg reports that the share of chips that are usable at Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Co.’s Arizona plant is 4 percentage points higher than in Taiwan.

That success rate is a major indicator of a plant’s economic viability, and is good news for Washington’s effort to revitalize the semiconductor-manufacturing industry in the US. It’s also good news for TSMC, who is reportedly being probed by the US for possibly selling chips to Huawei after sanctions were put in place.

“We now expect volume production of our first fab to start in the beginning of 2025, and are confident to deliver the same level of manufacturing quality and reliability from our fab in Arizona as from our fabs in Taiwan,” TSMC CEO CC Wei told investors last week.