Taiwan's TSMC, the world's largest contract manufacturer of semiconductors, has revealed that it is considering building a second semiconductor factory in Japan.
This was announced by CEO Wei Zhejia at the company's online financial results announcement press conference on the 12th.
Wei said, ``We are considering building a second factory in Japan,'' and cited ``a reasonable level of customer demand and government support'' as a condition.
TSMC is currently constructing Japan's first factory in Kumamoto prefecture jointly with Sony Group and others, and plans to start mass production by the end of next year.
TSMC has received invitations to build factories from various countries, and last month announced that it would build a new factory to produce state-of-the-art semiconductors in Arizona, USA.
On the other hand, TSMC's financial results for last year showed sales of NT$2.2638 trillion, about 9.8 trillion yen, up 42.6% from the previous year, and final profit of 1.0165 trillion yen, up 70.4% from the previous year. The Taiwanese yuan is about 4.4 trillion yen, both of which are new record highs.