A feud is heating up between Arizona workers and the world’s leading chipmaker after the company claimed the US doesn’t have the skills to build its new factory::TSMC wants to bring in foreign reinforcements to get its Arizona factory running because it claims there aren’t enough qualified local workers.
It is very inaccurate to say there is no other chip or silicon manufacturing in the state. There is a ton in Phoenix - Microchip has multiple fabs and is headquartered in Scottsdale, there’s also NXP, ON Semi, Intel, probably more that I don’t know about. It’s not the exact same technology that TSMC is building (AFAIK), but there is definitely a strong semiconductor industry in Arizona.