TSMC runs into construction delays in Arizona
 

Already three to six months behind schedule

TSMC’s new Arizona chip-making plant has run into construction delays.

Work has fallen three to six months behind schedule due to a mixture of labour shortages, COVID-19 surges, and complexities in obtaining construction licenses.

The company originally hoped that the construction of facilities would have reached the point that it’d be able to start moving in chip-making equipment by September. It’s now expecting to have to wait until 2023 instead.

TSMC does not have any trouble getting semiconductor production equipment. Rather, the delay is more mundane, centered on the difficulties of building a gigantic industrial facility.

It does not help that TSMC is on slightly unfamiliar ground (the Arizona factory is set to be its first advanced site in the US).

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