The world's most advanced foundry, the Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Co. (TSMC), announced a $ 100 billion investment for the next three years focused on expanding its chip manufacturing capacity to deal with global shortages affecting today's market.
Although the company had already planned to spend 28,000 million dollars this year to increase production, finally these plans go to an average of 33,333 million dollars of annual investment until the year 2023.
"TSMC expects to invest $ 100 billion over the next three years to increase capacity to support R&D and manufacturing of advanced semiconductor technologies," the company said in an official statement. "TSMC is working closely with our clients to serve their needs in a sustainable way."
With this investment, TSMC hopes to face future demand, and it is that at the moment things will not change much, and more knowing that yesterday it was indicated that the shortage of GPUs will last, at least, until the end of this year, although really the global shortage of chips would last until the second half of 2022.
In addition to GPUs, there is a shortage of CPUs, SoCs for mobile devices, consoles or vehicles, and it is that recently TSMC met with the automotive industry and ended up increasing the allocation of wafers to help a market that has even had to stop. the production of vehicles for lack of chips.
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