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TSMC's CEO confirmed that a team has been dispatched to Texas to assess expanding capacity, and that talks are under way with Musk's TeraFab plan.

Taiwan's High Prosecutors Office has charged a former TSMC executive under the National Security Act, the Trade Secrets Act and other offenses, accusing him of intending to leak core technology trade secrets to China and seeking a seven-year prison sentence.

TSMC announced an additional $100 billion investment in capacity and equipment in Arizona, USA, bringing its total investment in the United States to $265 billion.

TSMC, a bellwether for global chip demand, reported quarterly earnings up 77% year-on-year, but its US-listed shares still fell 2.3%.

On June 9, 2026, TSMC executives stated clearly in an interview with the BBC that, despite expanding capacity in the US, Europe, and Japan, the world's most advanced cutting-edge semiconductor chip manufacturing will be firmly maintained and retained in Taiwan for the long term.