TSMC in Arizona: Why Taiwan's chip titan is betting on the desert

Company's $12bn plant could benefit from ecosystem built by Intel and others

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TSMC, the world's biggest contract chipmaker, has started construction on a plant in Arizona. © Reuters

YIFAN YU and CHENG TING-FANG, Nikkei staff writers

PALO ALTO, U.S./TAIPEI -- Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Co. has broken ground on a chipmaking facility in Arizona, just over year after announcing the $12 billion project.

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