“Look at our proximity to Mexico,” says Watson. “That is a decisive advantage. Ford has a plant right across the border in Sonora. Since we worked closely to support Lucid with its supply base, we not only had suppliers here in Arizona, but also [we were] able to tap into the supply base across Mexico. And in Southern California too. “Arizona says the American Midwest is doing fine. But there are other regions in the auto industry too.” We have infrastructure that connects us to the west coast and the ports that serve the world. “Supply chain,” she said “And we’ve built a significant supply base serving other advanced industries here, including aerospace and defense, electronics and semiconductors, and they are now easily positioned to become automotive suppliers.” Just before the pandemic hit, they traveled Watson and her recruiting team to Taiwan, where they visited a company that was hardly known in the auto industry at the time: TSMC, or Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Co. The trip was worth it The industry was cut off by a global chip shortage, TSMC announced the construction of its first US plant in the Phoenix area to create more capacity for North American customers.
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