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To: Bill Wolf who wrote (196825)12/5/2025 8:35:34 AM
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In Arizona Desert, Taiwanese Families Create Community and Build a Factory

Skilled workers from Taiwan engaged in the chip industry have found ways to ease the transition to America while making an imprint on Greater Phoenix.

By Peter S. Goodman

Reporting from Phoenix

Dec. 4, 2025

Nothing about Sentio, an apartment complex in North Phoenix, gives away its connection to the future of American manufacturing. Its 325 units are arrayed around a courtyard and a swimming pool.

But the compound is widely known as TSMC Village. Four miles to the north, in the middle of a desert valley, Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Company is building a constellation of factories to make advanced computer chips. The project has relied on an influx of skilled workers from Taiwan who have delivered an infusion of expertise to a country that had not built a major chip factory in more than a decade.

TSMC Village is where many of the incoming families land.

The newcomers have faced challenges in transitioning to life in an American region defined by sprawling suburbia and summer temperatures reaching 110. They have also transformed a sleepy and remote stretch of Greater Phoenix into a fast-growing Taiwanese community.

Businesses aimed at serving the workers and their families have proliferated, from boba tea shops to law firms and insurance agencies that include Mandarin speakers.

Sharon Lee, a former television anchor from Taipei, arrived two years ago with her husband, a TSMC quality control manager, and their twins, then still babies. She knew no one, spoke little English and could not drive. She was also suffering postpartum depression.

nytimes.com
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