The TSMC semiconductor Taiwanese will invest “at least $ 100 billion” in the US, Donald Trump said today with the company’s chief executive at the White House.

“They will invest at least $ 100 billion in the US in the short term for the construction of state -of -the -art semiconductor production plants,” the US president said.

The investment will “create thousands of jobs” with “very good wages” in Arizona, the White House resumed.

Speaking about TSMC’s investment in the US, Trump said a Chinese invasion of Taiwan would a “devastating” event.

Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Company (TSMC) produces semiconductors used by Apple’s iPhones to state -of -the -art NVIDIA artificial intelligence equipment.

The Managing Director of Taiwanese Colossus, SS Way, he stressed that the company had already invested $ 65 billion in the construction of three factories in Arizona.

The total investment will now amount to 165 billion, for three other production plants and two packaging plants, also in Arizona.

“We will produce many semiconductors for artificial intelligence,” SS said. Way.

“Companies are coming here and investing a lot of money because they want to be in the world’s largest market and want to avoid the duties they would face if they were not here,” said US Secretary of Commerce Howard Lutnik, who was present at the event.