Chip shortages


 * 1) 2021-1016. Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Company makes 24% of all the world's chips, and **92% of the most advanced ones** found in today's iPhones, fighter jets and supercomputers. Now TSMC is building America's first 5-nanometer fabrication plant, hoping to reverse a decades-long trend of the U.S. losing chip manufacturing to Asia. CNBC got an exclusive tour of the $12 billion fab that will start production in 2024 (in Phoenix Arizona). TSMC alone was responsible for 24% of the world’s semiconductor output in 2020, up from 21% in 2019, according to the company. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GU87SH5e0eI
 * 2) 2022-0124. Everything revealed at Intel's $100 billion Ohio chip plant event (supercut). Intel claims the average salary at this plant will be $135,000 per person, which is very unrealistic. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HlGvYQw82T8
 * 3) 2022-0504. Semiconductor manufacturers Samsung, Intel and Texas Instruments recently announced plans for new chip factories in the U.S. (Taylor, Texas) WSJ’s Rob Copeland visits Central Texas to learn why Samsung is moving to the region and what this type of reshoring could mean for the American economy. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h-feLLUnTXs
 * 4) 2022-0514. TSMC to build new chip factory in Japan. Under Biden, TSMC saw that the United States did not grant subsidies to American factories, so it chose to build factories in Japan.  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=veNl_AIJ0Gk