TSMC Achieves 4 Percent Higher Yields For US Made Chips Over Similar Products In Taiwan

According to Bloomberg, the Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Company (TSMC) is on track to enter mass production at its new chip fabrication facility in Arizona. TSMC’s Arizona plant is its highest end manufacturing facility in the US, and through it, the firm aims to diversify its production base away from Taiwan.

According to the report, TSMC’s president of its US division, Rick Cassidy, shared the details during a webinar on Wednesday. He outlined that yields at the site were better than TSMC had achieved in its Taiwan facilities, indicating that equipment installation at TSMC Arizona went as planned to allow TSMC to enter mass production in 2025.

TSMC’s US President Reveals That Yields At Arizona Are Better Than At Taiwan Facilities But Doesn’t Outline Manufacturing Technology

Yields are one of the most important aspects of chip manufacturing technologies since they reduce the costs a fab has to incur when selling semiconductor wafers to design companies like NVIDIA and AMD. They refer to the percentage of usable chips per wafer, and the greater the number of chips that pass qualification testing, the fewer losses a fab has to absorb.

Additionally, the early stages of chip fabrication, such as early production and volume production, are primarily used to test whether manufacturing machines can output a high number of wafers that are free of defects or contain defects at an acceptable percentage. TSMC has some of the strongest yields in the global semiconductor industry, which has made its products the go to for some of the biggest technology…