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US Advanced-Packaging Gap

US lacks domestic CoWoS-scale packaging

Even as TSMC Arizona ramps front-end wafers, the US has almost no domestic CoWoS-class advanced-packaging capacity, so Arizona-made wafers must ship back to Taiwan for packaging. Amkor's Peoria AZ plant and TSMC's planned AZ packaging aim to close this, but through 2026 the back-end remains a US supply-chain hole.

Gap

No US CoWoS at scale

Fix underway

Amkor Peoria, TSMC AZ

How it fits the stack

US Advanced-Packaging Gap with what it depends on (above) and what it feeds (below). The figure renders as a crawlable diagram and upgrades to an interactive 3D graph as it scrolls into view.

depends ondepends onUS Advanced-PackagingGapFabsAmkor TechnologyTSMC Arizona (Fab 21)chokepoint
US Advanced-Packaging GapDepends on ↑Feeds ↓

US Advanced-Packaging Gap in the AI stack. US Advanced-Packaging Gap with its immediate upstream dependencies (top) and downstream dependents (bottom) in the AI value chain. Hover a node in 3D, or read the full relationships below.

Graph data (text) — 3 entities, 2 relationships
  • US Advanced-Packaging Gapdepends onAmkor Technology
  • TSMC Arizona (Fab 21)depends onUS Advanced-Packaging Gap