TSMC says three fabs to start production in 2024ADVANCED PROCESSES: The company expects to start producing 3-nanometer chips in Tainan in the second half and 2-nanometer chips at new factories in Hsinchu Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Co (TSMC, 台積電) yesterday said that three new plants in Kaohsiung, Japan and the US would start production in 2024, as it accelerates its capacity expansion to cope with growing semiconductor demand. Apart from the two fabs that are under construction in Arizona and in Kumamoto, Japan, the world’s biggest contract chipmaker plans to start building a new fab in Kaohsiung in the second half of this year, TSMC vice president Y.L. Wang (王英郎) said at the firm’s annual technology symposium in Hsinchu. The Kaohsiung fab, dubbed Fab 22, would produce 7-nanometer and 28-nanometer chips once it beginsBy Lisa Wang
