TAIPEI -- When TSMC Chairman and CEO C.C. Wei stood next to U.S. President Donald Trump early this month and announced the world's biggest chipmaker would be investing an additional $100 billion to build five more advanced chip facilities and an R&D center on American soil, many back home in Taiwan were worried about what it would mean economically and politically for the island.
Pressure from the U.S. government and clients is pulling TSMC to expand more and more in America. (Illustration by Yoshiko Kawano)
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