Guo Zhihui, Taiwan's Minister of Economic Affairs, expressed on the 30th that Taiwan's TSMC, the world's number one foundry (semiconductor contract manufacturing) company, will build a third factory in Japan, according to Kyodo News.
According to the report, during his visit to Tokyo, he told a Kyodo News reporter, "The third factory will be for advanced semiconductor purposes and will be after 2030."
However, he added that he "does not know" the specific location of the factory.
Earlier, Takashi Kimura, Governor of Kumamoto Prefecture, had stated that he would request the attraction of the third factory and recently visited TSMC's headquarters.
TSMC opened its first factory in Kumamoto Prefecture in February and also began site preparation work for the second factory in Kumamoto Prefecture in June.
The first factory is scheduled to produce about 55,000 units per month (based on 300mm wafers) of 12 to 28 nanometer (nm; 1 nano = one billionth of a meter) process products within this year, and the second factory aims to start operations in 2027.
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