SEOUL—Funding in U.S. chip manufacturing is on the rise. However so too, is semiconductor spending elsewhere.
Samsung Electronics Co. ’s deliberate $17 billion chip manufacturing unit in Texas is anticipated to crank out top-end semiconductors which can be important to 5G mobile networks, self-driving automobiles and synthetic intelligence. It follows hefty bets on U.S. soil by Intel Corp. , Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Co. and Texas Devices Inc.