Exclusive: TSMC supplier Nichias to build key chipmaking 'tubes' in Taiwan

TechnologyPartnership with Gold Stone Development aims to ease key chip supply chain bottleneck(Source photos by Yuki Nakao and screenshot from Nichias' website) CHENG TING-FANGAugust 25, 2026 11:36 JSTHSINCHU, Taiwan -- TSMC suppliers Nichias and Gold Stone Development are building a plant in Taiwan for special plastic components critical to the chipmaking industry, in an effort to avoid supply chain disruptions that have hampered production expansions in the past few years, Nikkei Asia learned.