TSMC’s $100 billion will significantly boost America’s semiconductor manufacturing industry but how it will shape US-Taiwan relations is an open question.

Taiwanese chip-making giant TSMC plans to invest a whopping $100 billion in the United States, after US President Donald Trump threatened to slap tariffs on overseas-made chips.Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Co is the world's biggest maker of the critical technology that has become the lifeblood of the global economy.

TAIPEI: Taiwanese chipmaking giant TSMC's plan to invest US$100 billion in the United States was a "historic moment" for Taiwan-US ties, the island's President Lai Ching-te said on T