TSMC, Samsung consider building chip factories in UAE: WSJ

High executives at TSMC maintain visited the UAE today and talked about a plant complex on par with one of the most most firm’s largest and most improved companies and products in Taiwan, the WSJ acknowledged, citing other folks conversant within the interactions

Reuters

23 September, 2024, 01:30 pm

Closing modified: 23 September, 2024, 01:34 pm

Two of the arena’s largest chipmakers, TSMC and Samsung Electronics maintain discussed constructing doable chip initiatives within the United Arab Emirates in coming years which will be rate bigger than $100 billion, the Wall Avenue Journal reported on Sunday.

High executives at TSMC maintain visited the UAE today and talked about a plant complex on par with one of the most most firm’s largest and most improved companies and products in Taiwan, the WSJ acknowledged, citing other folks conversant within the interactions.

South Korea-essentially based mostly mostly Samsung Electronics, a maker of smartphones, TVs and memory chips, would possibly be anxious about principal new chip-making operations within the nation within the years forward, the paper acknowledged.

TSMC informed Reuters it had no new investment plans to divulge.

“We’re continually open to constructive discussion on methods to promote pattern of the semiconductor replace, but we remain challenging in our present worldwide growth initiatives and haven’t any new investment plans to uncover at the moment,” it acknowledged in a assertion on Monday, without elaborating.

Samsung declined to touch upon the WSJ characterize.

Senior figures at Samsung Electronics visited UAE today and discussed the root, WSJ reported, adding that the discussions had been quiet within the early phases and can face technical and assorted hurdles.

Under initial phrases being discussed, the initiatives would possibly possibly doubtless be funded by the UAE, with a central role for Abu Dhabi-essentially based mostly mostly sovereign pattern vehicle Mubadala, constant with WSJ.

The paper added that the broader aim would possibly possibly doubtless be to magnify worldwide chip manufacturing and abet carry prices down without hurting chip-makers’ profitability.

As tech deals within the save of dwelling trudge up, Washington has became increasingly concerned with the UAE and assorted Heart Eastern countries changing correct into a conduit for improved US AI skills reaching China.