>[!INFO] Summary > Published: [[2024-12-13 Fri]] > Author: [[CNBC]] > Platform: [[YouTube]] > Format: [[Documentary]] > Length: 16m30s > Link: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WHat_LYrpQE **Title:** TSMC’s New Arizona Fab! Apple Will Finally Make Advanced Chips In The U.S. **Description:** > On 1,100 acres in the Arizona desert north of Phoenix, a newly completed 3.5-million-square foot building is making history as the most advanced chip fabrication plant on U.S. soil. It’s Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Company’s first of three Arizona fabs, which will total a $65 billion investment when they’re complete at the end of the decade. Apple has committed to being the site’s largest customer. Full production has been delayed until 2025, but pilot production has begun. CNBC got an exclusive first look at the fab, where TSMC chairman Rick Cassidy says the project is “dang near back on the original schedule.” Appearances: - [[Rick Cassidy]], Chairman, TSMC Arizona - [[Stacy Rasgon]], Bernstein Research, Senior Analyst - [[Rose Castanares]], President, TSMC Arizona https://www.tsmc.com/static/abouttsmcaz/index.htm - TSMC Arizona’s first fab will operate it’s leading-edge semiconductor process technology ==(N4 process), starting. production in the first half of 2025. The second fab will utilize its leading edge N3 and N2 process technology and be operational in 2028.== The recently announced third fab will manufacture chips using 2nm or even more advanced process technology, with production starting by the end of the decade.