Trump official says U.S. scored ‘5G trifecta’ in competition with China
The decision by one of the world’s largest manufacturers of semiconductors to build a $12 billion plant in Arizona is a “game-changer” for the U.S. high-tech industry and for national security in the competition against China, a top Trump official said Monday.
Undersecretary of State Keith Krach, a former CEO of DocuSign, called the move by the Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Co. “absolutely historic.”
“That will bolster American national security and economic prosperity,” Mr. Krach told conservative radio host Hugh Hewitt.
“The semiconductors they make, these chips, are the most sophisticated in the world. And it powers everything from AI to 5G to F-35s. So this investment’s going to create hundreds of thousands of jobs [for] skilled Americans.”
