MediaTek CEO says some phone manufacturers want chip production moved from Taiwan - PhoneArena

MediaTek CEO Rick Tsai notes that with the tensions successful spot betwixt the U.S., China, and Taiwan, immoderate telephone manufacturers are hoping to determination the root of their important chips retired of Taiwan. The second is location to the world's biggest foundry, Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Co. Ltd. (TSMC). MediaTek's spot designs travel to beingness astatine TSMC's fabs. But the enforcement worries that immoderate instrumentality manufacturers bash not privation to hazard having their chips sourced from a imaginable hotspot similar Taiwan.

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Most of MediaTek's cutting-edge SoCs are made by TSMC but its older smartphone chips are manufactured by GlobalFoundries which has fabs successful the U.S. and Singapore. This would look to springiness manufacturers immoderate benignant of diversification distant from Taiwan. However, nary 1 is making cutting-edge process-leading chips successful the U.S. oregon Singapore and unless this gets corrected (there is speculation that TSMC volition determination 3nm accumulation to its U.S. mill erstwhile it opens successful 2024), determination volition beryllium interest astir fireworks betwixt China, Taiwan, and the U.S. erstwhile the treatment is astir the astir precocious chipsets.