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Pumping the oil of the 21st century: TSMC versus INTEL

"At the same time TSMC can not complain: they got Chips-act money, cheap loan, 35% tax break and loan guarantees by the Taiwan government in the 250 B investment treaty with US. In total it means all the Arizona investments of 165 B$ by TSMC are also heavily subsidized, and they can import chips from Taiwan for 0 tariff for their US customers as long as the Arizona Giga-campus is under construction. So, all this money for TSMC will help them as well to grow their gross margin and net profit margin."

I believe there is an error in your table (or Google's AI generated table) and analysis.

The $250 billion loan credit guarantees are for an additional $250 billion of investment in the United States, this is not part of the $250 billion direct investment in the US (the majority is coming from TSMC). The $250 billion loan guarantees are backed by Taiwan’s government, not by the US government, and not for TSMC, or at least not totally for TSMC.

It seems NVIDIA's CEO likes the Taiwan-US trade deal very much and praises TSMC as being very important in that deal.

He just arrived in Taiwan for some special events and a hair cut:


https://wccftech.com/nvidia-ceo-to-...ar-dinner-with-taiwanese-partners-this-month/
 
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