The US "CHIP Act" opened applications for subsidies for semiconductor companies that set up factories in the United States today (31st). Liu Deyin, chairman of TSMC, a Taiwanese chip manufacturing company that has set up factories in the United States, bluntly said that some of the provisions of the bill are too harsh and TSMC is "unacceptable."
"If you want to take American money, the price is amazing!" The United States will officially launch the Chip and Science Act, which has a subsidy size of about $53 billion, but requires recipients not to expand production in Chinese mainland for 10 years. The Wall Street Journal said that this is especially tricky for companies such as TSMC, South Korea's Samsung and SK Hynix, which have a large number of operations in the mainland. TSMC's Shanghai and Nanjing plants together account for 6% of the company's total chip foundry capacity.
At the same time, the U.S. Department of Commerce also requires subsidy applicants to hand over key documents with detailed factory operating information, including profit indicators such as expected cash flow, as well as trade secrets such as capacity, capacity utilization, chip yield and first-year production price, and must return a portion of the profit if the actual revenue figure significantly exceeds the forecast.
For the high threshold of US subsidies, Liu Deyin said on the 30th that he could not accept some of the conditions, and stressed that he would continue to communicate with the US government to avoid negative impact on Taiwanese manufacturers.
In addition, the South Korean side has also expressed dissatisfaction with this. South Korea's trade minister believes that the subsidy conditions are too broad, and investment in the United States brings uncertainty to South Korean companies. Park Jung-ho, chief executive of South Korean chipmaker SK Hynix, was vague about whether to apply for subsidies, saying that the application process is complicated and the conditions are extensive, and how it will be planned is going to proceed.
In fact, at the beginning of TSMC's factory in the United States, public opinion on the island constantly accused the United States of "hollowing out Taiwan" with the tacit consent of the DPP authorities and turning TSMC into "TSMC." After the introduction of relevant subsidy rules in the United States, it further confirmed the previous concerns of public opinion on the island.
Netizens on the island believe that after setting up a factory in the United States, the United States has already deceived TSMC and began to show its true face of turning its face and not recognizing people; After TSMC was deceived by the United States, it became a lamb to be slaughtered; This is "raise, set, kill"!
Source: Grandstand Sea