By Karen Freifeld (Reuters) -Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing could face a penalty of $1 billion or more to settle a U.S.

"After a painful learning curve, we have finally connected most of the dots and know which local construction contractors we can work with in building new plants," a TSMC executive told Nikkei.

TSMC spent five years building its first fab in Arizona and the company has said that future U.S. fabs will take only two years or less to build and open. This is a big deal since it means that TSMC's ...

Regardless, many if not most of those future employees will be technicians lacking four-year college degrees, opening well-paying career opportunities for thousands of people who never expected to ...

The US Department of Commerce has been investigating the world's biggest contract chipmaker's work for China-based Sophgo, ...