TSMC believes that it will have enough water for its fabs in Phoenix.
. That alone makes up close to 3% of the water production in Phoenix where two fabs are being built. One facility, building chips using the 4nm process node, will start running next year. The second plant will start operations in 2026 and will churn out chips using the 3nm process node., there is some trepidation that the world's biggest foundry might have to deal with"water politics" in a state that is recovering from drought conditions.
Officials in Phoenix say that if TSMC builds the six fabs in the city that current plans call for, the Taiwan-based company will need 40,000 acre-feet of water a year which is equivalent to the annual water use of 160,000 homes. TSMC says that the state of Arizona has designated Phoenix as having a 100-year supply of water. That's because the city can draw on water supplies from the Colorado River, the Verde River, the Salt River, and underground sources.
Besides the plants being built in Arizona, TSMC is building a fab in Kumamoto, Japan. Unlike the fabs being built in the states, these will make chips using older process nodes such as 12nm, 16nm, 22nm, and 28nm. The company opened an overseas office on April 1st charged with overseeing and supervising the plants being constructed in the U.S. and Japan.
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