Washington pressures TSMC to make chips in US
I think there is a  geopolitical reason why most TSMC's 300mm GIGAFAB's and advanced backend fab are located in Taiwan (1 fab in China). <a href="https://www.tsmc.com/english/contact_us.htm#TSMC_fabs" rel="nofollow">https://www.tsmc.com/english/contact_us.htm#TSMC_fabs</a><p>Concentrating geopolitical risk of TSMC operations makes Taiwan more important to the rest of the world. The US would naturally want to reduce this risk. In Taiwan-China conflict world chip production would take a huge hit or be in the danger of falling under Chinese rule.<p>If TSMC's leadership is patriotic, they should refuse this pressure as much as they can and ask more weapons for Taiwan instead.