By Brian Swint
Shares of Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing were rising early Friday after the Commerce Department announced the company could get up to $6.6 billion of government funding to build chip factories in Arizona.
The stock added 0.6% in premarket trading to $189.60. Coming into the session, the shares have gained more than 80% since the start of the year.
TSMC is getting the money under the Chips Act. The cash will support the company's planned investment of $65 billion to create a production cluster near Phoenix. The government said that the project will create 6,000 manufacturing jobs, 20,000 construction jobs, and more than 10,000 indirectly related jobs in this decade.
It is the largest foreign direct investment in a greenfield project in U.S. history, the government said. The first of three facilities is scheduled to open next year.
President Joe Biden signed the Chips Act into law in 2022 to provide funds to develop the semiconductor industry in the U.S.
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