Negotiations are under way with the Singapore Economic Development Board, according to WSJ, citing unnamed sources.
“Securing supply chains for essential components is a key issue for the Singapore government, and it is following in the footsteps of the US and Japan,” one of the “people familiar with the project” told the WSJ.
A TSMC spokeswoman told WSJ: “TSMC doesn’t rule out any possibility but does not have any concrete plan at this time.”
For the Singapore project, TSMC is exploring production lines making 7- to 28-nanometer chips. TSMC is already making cutting edge chips are already at 5 nm.
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TSMC has announced a capex of between US$40 billion and US$44 billion for 2022.
