這一次疫情，美國檢討重要供應鏈、產業鏈在全球的布局。 台積電也扮演重大角色。做為國安考量，未來美國可能將在本土設廠。
As a result of the COVID-19 pandemic, the US Government started to cut ties with Asia in order to protect the integrity of its industrial supply chains.
The US State Security System indicated that the US National Defence Industry had an issue of having excessive exposure for a number of years and that it will now have to accelerate the speed of industrial development. Semiconductors and microelectronic chips are imperative for national defence mechanisms. Taiwan’s TSMC and South Korea’s Samsung, as well as factories in China are some of the US’ suppliers.
The US expressed that Taiwan’s wafer industry is the single point of failure for the US, meaning that once it fails, industry in the US will not be able to recover.
