US-Taiwan trade deal positions Arizona as global chip manufacturing hub
The United States and Taiwan entered a $250 billion trade agreement aimed at bolstering American chipmaking. The Valley's economy and infrastructure could be heavily impacted.
Isys Morrow
In this article aired Jan. 22, 2026, in Arizona's Family:
Taiwan is not predicting war, but moving to the U.S. A lot of its fab production is part of its risk-mitigation strategy, and Arizona is becoming its insurance strategy, in a way. Rather than creating clusters from scratch, it will mainly accelerate and enlarge existing projects. I don't expect new chip companies to come in anytime soon, because you already have big players like Samsung, Intel, and TSMC, and their ecosystems of suppliers, including packaging and testing, which companies need to strengthen today.
— Hitendra Chaturvedi, professor of practice, NASPO Department of Supply Chain Management
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