Apple in final stages of verifying TSMC's 'Made in USA' chips

Taiwanese chip titan's first Arizona plant is 'mass production-ready'

20250114 APPLE and TSMC

Apple has long been a key client of Taiwanese Semiconductor Manufacturing Co., the world's biggest contract chipmaker. (Source photos by Makoto Okada and Shinya Sawai)

CHENG TING-FANG, Nikkei Asia chief tech correspondent

TAIPEI -- Apple is in the final stage of verifying its first "made in America" cutting-edge processor chips from Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Co.'s plant in Arizona.

The first batch of commercial mass-produced chips is expected as early as this quarter, after the quality assurance processes are completed, people briefed on the matter said.

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