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description: "Chip War: TSMC faces growing challenges as rivals court its engineers and supply chain partners, media report, with Elon Musk having already hired TSMC engineers for advanced packaging (FOPLP) and PCB work in Texas, and now for the TeraFab project. Major TSMC rivals Samsung, Intel, Rapidus and China firms Hua Hong, SMIC not only pay a premium for equipment, materials from ‘TSMC certified’ suppliers, they also cut test/validation times. $Taiwan Semiconductor(TSM.US) $Tesla(TSLA.US) $Intel(INTC.US) $SSNLF #Samsung #SMIC #HuaHong #Nexchip #semiconductors #TeraFabSource: Dan Nystedt"
datetime: "2026-04-09T01:32:24.000Z"
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# Chip War: TSMC faces growing challenges as rivals …


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