Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Company (TSMC) first announced a new chip production facility in Japan in 2022, where it planned to start production in 2024. . . And it’s already operational.
TSMC in Japan (source: ChatGPT + DALL-E)
The two years flew past, and now the facility is ready to begin mass production later this year, with TSMC tapping Sony’s assistance to get the plant operational in Japan. The new Kumamoto fab plant has been dubbed “Nightless Castle” as there were workers there on 24-hour shifts, which is how the new TSMC plant was built in just two years, with plants regularly taking three or more years to get up and running.
Sony is an investor and a customer for TSMC’s new plant in Japan; with the new fab plant getting up and running so quickly in Japan, that wouldn’t necessarily be done in other countries. Why? TSMC had efficient government support, strict construction timetables, and a low-cost workforce that was flooding the site and then working 24 hours a day, 7 days a week.
Kumamoto Governor Ikuo Kabashima said in an interview: “We committed to having it ready in two years because that’s what TSMC asked us to do. To be on time is to gain confidence. “
Kazuhisa Matsuda, senior general manager of NowPlus, said: “We brought in combined staff from all over the country, from Hokkaido to Okinawa. A task that will pay 30,000 yen was paid with 50,000 yen on TSMC’s website. “
This schedule may not be repeated in the United States, because Japanese unions are much more flexible and allow structures to operate 24 hours a day. The people of Kikuyo began calling TSMC’s new factory the “Nightless Castle,” an appropriate name.
Sony staff worked with TSMC to replenish water supplies and tone down the environmental impact the new plant in Japan would have. Kumamoto featured plenty of underground water supplies, which is why TSMC chose this location.
TSMC in Japan (source: ChatGPT + DALL-E)
A Sony spokeswoman said: “We helped TSMC in setting up the Kumamoto factory, by providing a wide range of support such as securing the supply of water, electricity and engineers as well as obtaining permits and licenses”.
It’s exciting to see TSMC’s new production facilities in Japan come together, and even more exciting to see what TSMC, Sony and Japan can do in the coming years as they fight off major foreign competition like Intel, which has finished its new node Intel 18A procedure. . , and introduced its next-generation Intel 14A process node, any of which will be manufactured in the US.
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