https://taiwanstrait.com/tags/arizona/ Recent content in Arizona on Taiwan Strait Hugo en-us Sun, 26 Apr 2026 00:00:00 +0000 https://taiwanstrait.com/dispersing-the-fabs-tsmcs-expansion-beyond-taiwan-and-its-geopolitical-limits/ Sun, 26 Apr 2026 00:00:00 +0000 https://taiwanstrait.com/dispersing-the-fabs-tsmcs-expansion-beyond-taiwan-and-its-geopolitical-limits/ <p>The political consensus that Taiwan&rsquo;s concentration of advanced semiconductor production represents a strategic vulnerability has produced a global effort to disperse that production — or at least to replicate enough of it elsewhere that a Taiwan Strait crisis does not produce a complete collapse of advanced chip supply. TSMC is building fabs in Arizona, in Kumamoto and Hokkaido in Japan, and in Dresden, Germany. Intel is building in Ohio and Germany. Samsung is expanding in Texas. The CHIPS Act in the United States, the European Chips Act, and Japan&rsquo;s semiconductor subsidy programs have collectively directed tens of billions of dollars at this dispersal objective. The effort is serious, expensive, and insufficient on the timescale that matters most.</p>