Taiwan Semiconductor Plans to Build Second Fab at Phoenix Site

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Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Co. says it has started construction on a second semiconductor chip plant in Phoenix. Combined with another under-construction plant nearby, the company says it will have invested $40 billion in the projects. More than 10,000 construction workers would be involved in building the plants, known as "Fabs," TSMC says. Work on the first plant is being led by a joint venture of Dallas-based Austin Commercial and Houston-based CTCI Americas Inc. Neither the contractors nor TSMC immediately responded to inquiries about the team for the second fab. Once completed, the fabs would produce more than 600,000 wafers per year, TSMC says. The plant would allow the plants to achieve "Near zero liquid discharge." President Biden traveled to Phoenix Dec. 6 to speak about the TSMC projects and other manufacturing projects that have benefited from U.S. government spending packages like the Chips and Science Act, which allocated $39 billion to boost semiconductor chip manufacturing construction in addition to other incentives. Other tech manufacturers are also in the midst of U.S. fab projects, including Micron with a plant outside Syracuse, N.Y. and Intel in central Ohio.