With so many factors in play, the United States now sees that despite offering more than $6.6 billion in subsidies and at least $5 billion in soft loans to TSMC, the Taiwanese have no plans to bring manufacturing of their most advanced chips to their planned Arizona fab, arguing that they need to hold on to their engineers from their global research and development center in Taiwan, which means that Arizona would always be behind and would not even be able to meet the competition posed by Nvidia. Companies such as Apple or Tesla would therefore continue to be forced to buy directly from factori…
