TSMC to make advanced AI semiconductors in Japan in boost for its chipmaking ambitions

Taiwan’s TSMC, the world’s largest contract computer chip maker, has announced it will be manufacturing advanced 3-nanometer semiconductors in Japan to meet booming AI demand. The announcement came Thursday at a meeting between Japanese Prime Minister Sanae Takaichi and TSMC's CEO, C.C. Wei, in Tokyo. TSMC plans to produce the advanced semiconductors at its second factory in Japan's Kumamoto Prefecture, on the southern island of Kyushu. The move is a boost for Japan’s chipmaking and artificial intelligence ambitions. TSMC already has a plant in Kumamoto, and is building other new plants in Arizona to meet surging global AI demand.