Barron's: Semiconductors made in the US cost 50% more than those made in Asia

Morris Chang, the founder of Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing, has said the U.S. government’s push for domestic semiconductor manufacturing won’t be cheap for consumers, even after TSMC spends billions of dollars on new plants in Arizona. 

Chang has said that factories in the U.S. won’t be cost competitive with the firm’s Taiwan fabrication plants, or fabs. Chips currently made at the company’s Oregon site cost 50% more than the same semiconductors made in Asia, Chang said during an interview last year at the Brookings Institution.

~ Tae Kim, "Tech's Bill is Coming Due. We'll All Pay.," Barron's, January 7, 2023