[dna_polymerase]

TSMC is expanding into the US for that reason. Their 3nm fabs will be in Arizona (in addition to Taiwan)

[_zoltan_]

Arizona won't do N3 until 2026.

TSMC said that the leading node will always be in Taiwan and N+1 will be outside.

[Etheryte]

That's incredibly smart, when world powers rely on you to deliver cutting edge hardware either directly or by proxy, you can bet they'll also have a word or two to say about any plans China might have.

[drexlspivey]

So Apple wont be buying the Arizona chips since they’ll always be behind. Was Tim Cook saying all those big words in the fab opening ceremony just for show?

[yreg]

> But as Steve Jobs of Apple spoke, President Obama interrupted with an inquiry of his own: what would it take to make iPhones in the United States?

> Why can’t that work come home? Mr. Obama asked.

> Mr. Jobs’s reply was unambiguous. “Those jobs aren’t coming back,” he said, according to another dinner guest.

2011, https://www.nytimes.com/2012/01/22/business/apple-america-an...