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A site map pinned in a bright project office showing four fab footprints on the same campus, one shaded as complete and three left as bare outlines, with a drafting pencil resting across the boundary between finished and unbuilt

TSMC's $265 Billion Arizona Bet: What Reshoring the Frontier Node Actually Costs

Building a leading-edge fab outside Taiwan was long treated as economically irrational. TSMC is doing it anyway, at a scale that has quadrupled since the first announcement — and the reasons are as much about customers as about geopolitics.

By Brecht Corbeel · August 10, 2026 · 4 min read

A regional site map pinned to a bright office wall showing two campus footprints near each other, one labelled as a wafer fab and the other as a packaging campus, a connecting line caught being drawn between them

AI Hardware & Semiconductors

Amkor Is Building America's First Complete Chip Supply Chain

TSMC is building the wafer fab. Amkor is building the packaging plant next door — the piece that would let a chip go from raw silicon to finished, tested product without ever leaving the country.

By Brecht Corbeel · August 10, 2026 · 4 min read

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