How a cold call in 2013 led to TSMC's $165 billion Arizona bet

Digitimes
May 19, 2026, 1:07 pm111 pts
Sandra Watson, president and CEO of the Arizona Commerce Authority, revealed at the Plug and Play May Summit in Sunnyvale on May 19 that the state's relationship with TSMC began with an unsolicited approach during her first trip to Taiwan in 2013 — a cold call that has since grown into one of the largest…

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