Being one of the largest chip manufacturing companies in the world, TSMC is a leading company in small lithography processes, which has led it to have many of the leading companies in the IT industry seeking collaboration to offer the best technologies. This has led the Taiwanese company to seek new horizons and expand worldwide. factory What TSMC who seeks to open in the coming years will be Germany.
The third chip manufacturing plant that TSMC will have outside its home country, Taiwan, will be located in a European country and will arrive in Germany thanks to a significant investment, both by the company and the German government. This will put the Taiwanese company in a higher position than it is currently, although we cannot hope for too much, because as they have indicated, its most cutting-edge technologies will not reach this plant.
TSMC to arrive in Europe, its new factory in Germany to open in a few years
In recent years, we have seen how TSMC has grown extremely quickly. Its speed of process creation that no other company has achieved has made it a key company in the development of new chip-related technologies, such as processors for leading companies. on the market. This, in turn, has led a large number of countries and private companies to seek ways to collaborate with them, as the possibility of benefiting from the technological developments offered by this company would significantly improve the region’s economy.
In this case, as we well know, the next wafer fab will arrive in Germany, more precisely in Dresden, and according to several media outlets, the Taiwanese company is making all the preparations to start construction of its new plant in the coming weeks. . Although the date of the groundbreaking ceremony has not yet been made official, the president and CEO of TSMC, CC Wei, will go to Germany at the end of August to sign documents with the German government and, during this trip, he is expected to perform the said ceremony.
As one can imagine, the construction process will not be easy, which is why it is expected that the production plant will be able to start developing its products in 2027.
This plant will not have the company’s most advanced technologies
Although everything indicates that this plant will be one of TSMC’s greatest assets on European soil, this does not imply that it will bring all the technologies that have made it what it is, since these are reserved for the production plants it has. Asia. In this case, the production of the Dresden plant will be mainly dedicated to supplying components to the European automotive industry with two different process technologies: a 28 or 22 nm planar CMOS node and a 16 or 12 nm FinFET node.
In turn, this factory should have a monthly production capacity of around 40,000 wafers, which is not little if we consider that the Taiwanese brand will not be the sole owner, since three other companies, Infineon, Robert Bosch and NXP each have a 10% stake.
