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The Guardian - US
The Guardian - US
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Michael Sainato

‘They would not listen to us’: inside Arizona’s troubled chip plant

Joe Biden speaks with the chairman of TSMC, Mark Liu, during a visit to the site of its planned semiconductor plant in Phoenix on 6 December 2022.
Joe Biden speaks with the chairman of TSMC, Mark Liu, during a visit to the site of its planned semiconductor plant in Phoenix on 6 December 2022. Photograph: Jonathan Ernst/Reuters

Posed in front of an American flag and a large banner reading “A Future Made in America Phoenix, AZ,” Joe Biden told a crowd of assembled workers, supporters and media last December: “American manufacturing is back, folks.”

Eight months on, the Phoenix microchip plant – the centerpiece of Biden’s $52.7bn US hi-tech manufacturing agenda – is struggling to get online.

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