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TSMC receives $6.6B to build chip factories under U.S. CHIPS and Science Act

  • Posted byby Dean Takahashi
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The U.S. Department of Commerce announced it will provide $6.6 billion in direct funding to chip maker TSMC to build chip factories in Arizona.

The news comes after last week’s announcement that Intel would receive $8.5 billion in funding for building its U.S. chip factories and the February announcement that GlobalFoundries would receive $1.5 billion.

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Dean Takahashi

Dean Takahashi is editorial director for GamesBeat. He has been a tech journalist since 1988, and he has covered games as a beat since 1996. He was lead writer for GamesBeat at VentureBeat from 2008 to April 2025. Prior to that, he wrote for the San Jose Mercury News, the Red Herring, the Wall Street Journal, the Los Angeles Times, and the Dallas Times-Herald. He is the author of two books, "Opening the Xbox" and "The Xbox 360 Uncloaked." He organizes the annual GamesBeat Next, GamesBeat Summit and GamesBeat Insider Series: Hollywood and Games conferences and is a frequent speaker at gaming and tech events. He lives in the San Francisco Bay Area.