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  1. 11-9-2023 TSMC Arizona chip plant will be a paperweight, says analyst The Flaw in Apple’s Plan to Make Chips in Arizona No matter what happens with TSMC's high-profile facility in Phoenix, many cutting-edge chips it produces for Apple, Nvidia, AMD and Tesla will still require assembly in Taiwan. U$A media avoided speaking an uncomfortable truth: The Arizona factory—which has been a focal point of the Brandon plan and will cost $40 billion to build—will do little to make the U$ self-reliant in chips. That’s because many advanced chips made in Arizona for Apple or other customers such as Nvidia, AMD and Tesla will still require assembly in Taiwan in a process known as packaging, according to interviews with multiple TSMC engineers and former Apple employees.
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