The investing conglomerate is looking to team up with TSMC on the initiative as SoftBank continues to pour money into AI.

TSMC, which has already begun mass production at its first Arizona factory as part of a $165bn US investment, indicated that SoftBank’s project does not impact its existing plans in Phoenix.

Summary The proposed $1 trillion Arizona AI Park with TSMC could reshape global chip supply, benefiting U.S. tech giants and reducing geopolitical risks for TSMC and Nvidia.

SoftBank has long been interested in entering the AI chip space, with reports that the company’s founder Masayoshi Son was looking to raise $100 billion for an AI chip venture dubbed Izanagi to ...

Arizona has received $10.9 billion of federal CHIPS Act grants so far, with TSMC receiving $6.6 billion of that plus $3.9 billion for Intel's Chandler campus and $407 million for Amkor Technology ...

SoftBank Group Corp. founder Masayoshi Son is seeking to team up with Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Co. to realize what could be his biggest bet yet - a trillion-dollar industrial complex ...

Masayoshi Son is envisioning a massive AI and robotics industrial zone in Arizona, potentially costing $1 trillion. This 'Arizona AI megaproject' aims ...

SoftBank is keen to have TSMC involved in the project, codenamed Project Crystal Land, but it is not clear in what capacity, the report said. It is also not clear the Taiwanese company would be ...

Foxconn has also trialed humanoids made by China's UBTech. Whether it will use either machine is unclear. Reuters reports the humanoid robots are expected to start working from the first quarter of ...