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What will TSMC do next?
A global chip shortage is TSMC's cue to increase its global footprint. The question is: where in the world should it be targeting?
www.investmentmonitor.ai/, Feb. 06, 2023 –
aiwan Semiconductor Company (TSMC) is arguably the world's most popular company among policymakers. Every global location, bar none, wants to attract the economic development a TSMC semiconductor fab would bring, so much so that the Biden administration's US CHIPS Act, introduced in August 2022, might well have been a love letter written directly from the US government to TSMC – and the seduction is complete. In the past two years, the world's biggest maker of advanced semiconductors has made investments totalling $40bn in the US. For TSMC this represents a much-needed expansion of its global footprint, and for the US it ensures advanced chip-making capacity on domestic soil for the medium to long term.
Against the backdrop of Taiwan's growing economy of the past 60 years, TSMC has greatly prospered. The company was founded during this period, in 1987, by Chinese-born, Harvard-educated Morris Chang.
However, it was a global shortage of semiconductors, which came under the spotlight during the Covid-19 pandemic, that catapulted TSMC into being one of the world's most important corporations. TSMC has a near monopoly on the manufacture of advanced semiconductor chips, which are critical in the development of emerging technologies. As the global space race for tech supremacy intensifies, semiconductors have become the rocket fuel.
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