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The $8.6-billion facility in the southern Kumamoto region showcases TSMC's efforts to make some of its strategically crucial chips elsewhere than hotspot Taiwan, as well as Japan's push to revive its once-dominant semiconductor sector.
TSMC: Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Co, the world's largest contract chipmaker and island's most important company, is occasionally mentioned on the campaign trail, though issues that affect the sector such as the stability of the power grid and water shortages are much more frequently discussed.
Chip Industry: Both industry and government agree on co-operating on clean energy and the industry is willing to co-operate in achieving the goal of net zero by 2050, Hou said.
TSMC: Global worries about Taipei's plummeting relations with Beijing -- which claims the self-ruled island as its territory -- have fuelled a US push to successfully woo the Taiwanese company into building a chip-making factory in Arizona.
Samsung's Lee Jay-Yong met Elon Musk in May to discuss ways to strengthen the Korean brand's partnership with Tesla.