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A Taiwan trade deal would buy five more Arizona fabs

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The White House is nearing a trade deal with Taiwan cutting tariffs partly in exchange for TSMC building five more Arizona fabs, while SK Hynix is investing $12.9 billion in Korean HBM packaging and the House passed the Remote Access Security Act.

Reported metric: 5 fabs / $12.9B

Reporting date: 2026-01-13 (not necessarily the event date)

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Welcome to January 13, 2026 (theinnermostloop.substack.com)

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A Taiwan trade deal would buy five more Arizona fabs
Innermost Loop KB — secondary record
Reporting date: 2026-01-13
KB permalink: https://nicholsn.github.io/innermost-loop-kb/developments/2026-01-13-taiwan-deal-five-more-fabs
Claim: The White House is nearing a trade deal with Taiwan cutting tariffs partly in exchange for TSMC building five more Arizona fabs, while SK Hynix is investing $12.9 billion in Korean HBM packaging and the House passed the Remote Access Security Act.
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- Welcome to January 13, 2026 — https://theinnermostloop.substack.com/p/welcome-to-january-13-2026
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