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- Taiwan Semiconductor (NYSE:TSM) shares rose 4.5% on Friday as the company’s first fab plant in Japan will start mass-producing chips by the end of the year, Nikkei reported.
- Yuichi Horita, the president of a local operating unit for Taiwan Semi, told attendees at the recent Semicon Japan event that the plant in the Kumamoto prefecture had achieved “the same quality as plants in Taiwan,” the Japanese news outlet added.
- The Kumamoto plant is believed to eventually produce less advanced chips. The company has plans for a second facility
- that could produce logic chips between 6 and 12 nanometers, while it has reportedly discussed building a third plant in Japan that would make advanced 3 nanometer chips.
- The global semiconductor foundry has also reportedly discussed building an advanced chip packaging operation in Japan, as the country has set aside nearly $10B in subsidies for semiconductor and artificial intelligence initiatives this year as part of the country’s budget.
- Taiwan Semiconductor did not immediately respond to a request for comment from Seeking Alpha.