A complete domestic silicon supply chain fails without local advanced packaging capacity.
Securing sovereign chip design and wafer fabrication doesn't achieve supply chain resilience unless countries also build or directly contract localized, high-end packaging ecosystems.
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Nvidia's $1.5 billion deal with Amkor in Arizona secures the localized advanced packaging required to prevent supply-chain bottlenecks from halting domestic GPU deliveries.
It validates that domestic wafer fabrication must be supported by local packaging partnerships to secure the semiconductor supply chain.
TSMC must aggressively deploy billions into dedicated domestic packaging facilities alongside raw wafer fabs to make the onshore ecosystem viable.