Fab 18 will create 4,000 jobs: TSMC
Taiwan News
Date: 2018/01/26
By: Matthew Strong, Taiwan News, Staff Writer
TAIPEI (Taiwan News) – Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Co. (台積電), the world’s
TSMC breaking ground on its Fab 18 near Tainan. (By Central News Agency)
top contract chipmaker, broke ground on its Fab 18 for 5-nanometer chips in Tainan Friday.
Chairman Morris Chang (張忠謀), who plans to retire later this year, said the plan would start production in 2020, with total investment in 5-nanometer reaching NT$700 billion (US$24 billion) for all similar factories in Tainan and Hsinchu.
Work on the second phase of the factory would begin during the third quarter of the year, with production also starting in 2020, the Central News Agency reported. A third phase was slated to start construction next year, with chip production possible in 2021.
With all phases completed, production in 2022 could reach more than 1 million 12-inch wafers, TSMC said. [FULL STORY]