June 20 (Reuters) - Chipmakers across the globe are pouring billions of dollars in
investment to set up new plants, encouraged by the rising use of semiconductors in
everyday devices and generous subsidies from the United States and the EU aimed at keeping
the West ahead of China in the race for cutting-edge technology.
    The European Commission has earmarked 15 billion euros for public and private
semiconductor projects by 2030, while U.S. President Joe Biden's administration passed the
CHIPS Act last year to make over $52-billion worth of subsidies available for the American
semiconductor industry.
    The Act deters companies using U.S. funds from undertaking any big expansions of
overseas semiconductor manufacturing facilities in "countries of concern" such as China
for 10 years, with some exceptions.
    India, Taiwan and South Korea have also offered incentives such as tax breaks to boost
domestic chip production.
    Below are some of the chipmakers' plans for factories in Europe, North America and
Asia:
        
  NORTH AMERICA 
      
 Company             Investment 
 Intel               Last year, Intel said it would invest up to $100 billion to build
                     potentially the world's largest chip-making complex in Ohio. The
                     company also broke ground on two new factories in Arizona in
                     September 2021.
 Taiwan              TSMC said in December it plans to invest $40 billion in its chip
 Semiconductor       plant in Arizona. The plant is scheduled to be operational in 2024.
 Manufacturing       
 Company Ltd         
 (TSMC)              
 Wolfspeed Inc       In September, Wolfspeed said it would build a new multi-billion
                     dollar silicon carbide wafer factory in Chatham County, North
                     Carolina to make chips that power things such as electric vehicles.
                     Wafers are raw materials used for making chips.
 Micron Technology   In October, Micron said it planned to invest up to $100 billion over
                     the next 20-plus years to build a computer chip factory complex in
                     upstate New York. The company also announced a $15 billion factory in
                     Boise, Idaho in September. 
 GlobalFoundries     GlobalFoundries in July 2021 said it will build a second factory near
                     its in Malta, New York, headquarters, and spend $1 billion to boost
                     output to address the global chip shortage.
 Texas Instruments   The company has several wafer fab projects underway, including in
                     Richardson and Sherman in Texas and in Lehi, Utah. It expects
                     production at the Utah fab, which it bought from Micron for $900
                     million, to commence in 2026
 Samsung             In 2021, Samsung said it would invest in a $17 billion chip plant in
 Electronics Co Ltd  Taylor, Texas to make advanced chips for mobile, 5G, high-performance
                     computing and artificial intelligence. 
 SkyWater            It announced plans in July last year to invest $1.8 billion for a
 Technology          chip research and production facility in Indiana, in partnership with
                     the state and Purdue University.  
 
  EUROPE
     
 Company         Investment 
 Infineon        Infineon won approval to begin work on a 5 billion euro ($5.47
                 billion)semiconductor plant in the German city of Dresden, it said on
                 Feb. 16. Production is due to start in 2026.
 Intel                       Intel will spend more than 30 billion euros ($32.79 billion)
                 to develop two chip-making plants in Magdeburg, the German city it 
                             picked
                              in March 2022 as a key part of its $88 billion investment
                 drive across Europe.
                 
                     The U.S. chipmaker will get 10 billion euros of subsidies from
                 Germany, a source told Reuters.
                     It is also continuing talks with Italy for an advanced packaging and
                 assembly plant, the company said after announcing in June it would invest
                 up to $4.6 billion on a new semiconductor assembly and test facility in
                 Poland.
 STMicroelectro  The Franco-Italian company said in October it plans to build  a 730
 nics            million euro ($797.89 million) silicon carbide wafer plant in Italy.
                 Building is due to be complete in 2026.
                     It also announced plans in July to build a semiconductor factory in
                 France in partnership with GlobalFoundries        .
 Taiwan                      TSMC said it is feeling "good" about talks towards setting up
 Semiconductor   its first European factory in 
 Manufacturing               Germany
 Company Ltd                 . It has been in talks with the German state of Saxony since
 (TSMC)<2330.TW  2021 about building a fabrication plant, in Dresden.
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 Wolfspeed Inc   The chipmaker will build a $3-billion electric vehicle chip plant and a
                 research and development center in Germany, it said on Feb. 1. 
                     Production is planned to start in 2027 in the German state of
                 Saarland, with Wolfspeed's Chief Executive Gregg Lowe telling Reuters the
                 plant is expected to rank as the world's biggest production facility for
                 chips made out of silicon carbide.
 
  ASIA
 Company          Investment 
 Intel            Intel is considering a significant increase in its existing $1.5-billion
                  investment in Vietnam to expand its chip testing and packaging plant in
                  the Southeast Asian nation, Reuters reported in February.
 Taiwan           TSMC plans to construct a second chip plant in Japan to manufacture 5
 Semiconductor    and 10 nanometre chips from the second half of the decade, a local
 Manufacturing    newspaper reported in February.
 Company Ltd      
 (TSMC)           
 Samsung          Samsung said on March 15 it will invest around 300 trillion won 
 Electronics Co   ($233.03 billion) by 2042 to develop what the government called the
 Ltd              world's largest chip-making base, in line with efforts to enhance South
                  Korea's chip industry.
 Foxconn          Foxconn and Indian oil-to-metals conglomerate Vedanta signed a pact in
                  September with India's Gujarat to invest $19.5 billion in the western
                  state to set up semiconductor and display production plants. 
                              Micron 
 Micron                       said
 Technology                    it would invest $603 million over the next few years in its
                  chip packaging facility in China's Xian city. 
                  
                              STMicroelectronics and Sanan Optoelectronics             
 STMicroelectron              plan
 ics                           to set up a silicon carbide manufacturing joint venture in
                  Chongqing, China
                  
                              Japan's state-backed Rapidus 
 Rapidus                      said
                               it would build its semiconductor plant in Chitose, a
                  manufacturing hub on the nation's northern island of Hokkaido.
                  
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 (Reporting by Antonis Pothitos in Gdansk, Tiyashi Datta, Chavi Mehta, Aditya Soni and and
Akash Sriram in Bengaluru; editing by Josephine Mason, Mark Potter, Krishna Chandra Eluri
and Anil D'Silva)