# TSMC expands US investment by additional $100B, raises capex to $64B amid AI chip demand

> TSMC is pouring more money into the United States, lifting its total planned American investment from $165B to $265B and raising its 2026 capital budget to $64B. The extra $100B is earmarked for four new fabrication and packaging facilities in Arizona, aimed squarely at advanced 3-nanometre and 2-nanometre chips. The reason is simple: demand for AI silicon shows no sign of cooling. TSMC just posted a fifth straight quarter of record revenue and profit, with Q2 2026 revenue up nearly 34 percent and net income up more than 77 percent year over year. Orders for its leading nodes and CoWoS advanced packaging, the stuff that stitches together the big AI accelerators, are running hot. It is worth sitting with the scale. A single contract manufacturer is committing a quarter-trillion dollars in one country because the appetite for training and running AI models is that large. Whatever happens to any individual model or lab, the physical buildout underneath the boom is very real and very expensive.

_Section: [Daily AI Updates](https://www.wortins.com/daily-ai) · Source: Yahoo Finance · Published Sunday, August 9, 2026_

## Wortins' read

TSMC is pouring more money into the United States, lifting its total planned American investment from $165B to $265B and raising its 2026 capital budget to $64B. The extra $100B is earmarked for four new fabrication and packaging facilities in Arizona, aimed squarely at advanced 3-nanometre and 2-nanometre chips. The reason is simple: demand for AI silicon shows no sign of cooling. TSMC just posted a fifth straight quarter of record revenue and profit, with Q2 2026 revenue up nearly 34 percent and net income up more than 77 percent year over year. Orders for its leading nodes and CoWoS advanced packaging, the stuff that stitches together the big AI accelerators, are running hot. It is worth sitting with the scale. A single contract manufacturer is committing a quarter-trillion dollars in one country because the appetite for training and running AI models is that large. Whatever happens to any individual model or lab, the physical buildout underneath the boom is very real and very expensive.

## Source

[Read the full story at Yahoo Finance](https://finance.yahoo.com/technology/ai/articles/tsmc-just-gave-ai-chip-153000384.html)

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