News TSMC expands investments in the U.S. to $165 billion with new fabs and R&D center: A closer look

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TSMC is set to build a major semiconductor production hub in the U.S. for $165 billion, but the plans still need to be set.

TSMC expands investments in the U.S. to $165 billion with new fabs and R&D center: A closer look : Read more

 

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The company announced this week that it intends to build ... and an R&D center in the U.S.

I'd love to know what the R&D center is going to do. Is it any fundamental node development, or just essentially glorified customer support (i.e. to assist them in adapting their designs for its fabs + testing & troubleshooting the resulting silicon)? I'd guess the latter, depending on how self-sufficient their Taiwan-based R&D folks feel, given the sensitivity of the IP involved in node development.