Nikkie conveying the information on news out of Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Co., the world's biggest contract chipmaker.
- looking to build an advanced plant in south Taiwan
- part of a $100 billion expansion
- in the city of Kaohsiung
- The plant is to churn out chips using cutting-edge 7-nanometer and 6-nanometer tech, currently used to make advanced mobile processors and computing and graphics processors for Nvidia, AMD and MediaTek, sources told Nikkei Asia.
The plant will not start operating until 2023 or 2024 at the earliest.
