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Chips Act investments to boost semiconductor manufacturing are not seeing the expected results, point out the New York Times, Wall Street Journal and FT.
In May 2020 TSMC announced plans to build a fab in Arizona with construction starting in 2021 and production on 4nm scheduled to start in 2024. Production has now been put back to 2025.
The second fab was announced in December 2020, with production on 2nm scheduled for 2025. Production has now been put back to 2028.
A third TSMC fab for Arizona was announced but no date for the start of construction was set though production there is now slated for the late 2030s.
Intel planned to build two fabs in Ohio scheduled to start production in 2025. Now, completion of the construction has been postponed to 2026–2027 and production postponed to around 2027–2028.
Intel also planned to spend €30 billion on two fabs in Magdeburg Germany with construction set to start in 2023, This has now been put back to 2025.
Samsung planned to build two fabs in Taylor, Texas and started construction in 2022 with initial production set for 2024 but it is now being said that production will not start until 2026.
Well, no big surprises there ..