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I think I heard TSMC have/are building some new manufacturing plant in the US too now?
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They also have one in Washington State and have had it since ‘96. The Camas facility, houses a 200mm wafer fabrication plant and supports process nodes ranging from 0.35 micrometers down to 0.16 micrometers.
The AZ complex will be 6 Fab plants and 2 advanced packaging facilities.
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Good work- now just got to get those multiple rare earths refining plants up and running- could take a while- until then China has got a big strategic lever over the USA.
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We have MP up and running they are even smelting with the magnet facility being built in Texas. There is another deposit that is in Texas being developed that will be huge as well.
Not to mention the National Labs are working with industry to commercialize their proven tech for extraction via coal waste ash!
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Good start but still a long way to go to regain secure strategically important if not vital supplies of the multiple rare earths required for military and other applications.
China has gained the upper hand for at least a decade ahead as far as reports I have seen describe it.
BMxxxxchips from Bitmain are manufactured by TSMC, so not-China-yet, but maybe soon.