No more than Toyota having a factory in the US is "stealing" Toyota. Manufacturers in almost all sectors, including silicon foundries, have had manufacturing o

No more than Toyota having a factory in the US is "stealing" Toyota. Manufacturers in almost all sectors, including silicon foundries, have had manufacturing operations worldwide for decades. Centuries even. For all sorts of economic, customer, and government reasons, as well as simple diversification. Taiwan is still going to be TSMC's home base. Besides, if TSMC didn't open a US foundry then the US government would just throw money at Intel's foundry operation until they caught up. They're not that far behind. To be honest that's probably going to happen anyway.