Trump says Taiwan is doubling the size of chipmaking plant in Arizona
Trump's comments follow TSMC's announcement of $100 billion in US investment last year
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President Donald Trump on Wednesday said that Taiwan is doubling the size of the chipmaking plants under construction in Arizona, adding that it could help the U.S. share of the chip market rise to 50% by the end of his term.
"We're creating more jobs, we have more people working today than have ever worked in the history of our country. It's great and that's before these places opened," Trump said before his departure from Joint Base Andrews.
The president said that new chip plants will be opening up over the next year and that chipmakers from Taiwan, such as the industry leader TSMC, are adding to their investments in the U.S.
"The biggest company in the world, actually, the chipmaker. But they're coming in, they're building in Arizona, and they just announced they're going to double the size. We could have 50% of the chip market by the time I leave office. You know what we have now? Nothing," Trump added.
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The Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Company (TSMC) has committed about $165 billion to building out chipmaking capacity in the U.S. in recent years. (Rebecca Noble/Bloomberg via Getty Images)
The Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Company (TSMC) declined comment.
TSMC has previously announced large investments in building chipmaking facilities in the U.S., including an announcement of a series of investments that ultimately totaled $65 billion in 2024 as the U.S. CHIPS Act was signed into law that November. That investment covered three chip fabrication plants in Arizona.
President Donald Trump said the U.S. could be producing half of the world's chips by the time his term ends in January 2029. (Samuel Corum/Sipa/Bloomberg via Getty Images)
Then in March 2025, TSMC announced another $100 billion investment to help build a self-sustaining supply chain for artificial intelligence (AI) chips in the U.S.
That $100 billion investment included three new fabrication plants in Phoenix that would focus on next-gen AI chips for computer processors and smartphones, plus two advanced packaging facilities in Arizona and a center for research and development on next-generation technologies.
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TSMC CEO C.C. Wei appeared alongside President Trump in March 2025 when the company announced an additional $100 billion investment in U.S. chipmaking capacity. (Andrew Harnik/Getty Images)
TSMC said at the time that the project was the largest single foreign direct investment in U.S. history and would support 40,000 construction jobs over four years plus tens of thousands of high-paying jobs in chip manufacturing and R&D.
The company has historically kept the manufacturing of its most sophisticated chips in Taiwan, though the fabs expected to become operational by the end of this decade are designed to produce more advanced chips.
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Reshoring production of chips has been a priority of the Trump administration, which has used the threat of tariffs to spur investments in U.S. chip facilities.
Taiwan is the primary source of American imports of the most advanced chips, with the U.S. International Trade Commission finding in 2023 that Taiwan made over 44% of the logic chips imported to the U.S.