{"id":791862,"date":"2026-05-12T20:50:12","date_gmt":"2026-05-12T20:50:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/791862\/"},"modified":"2026-05-12T20:50:12","modified_gmt":"2026-05-12T20:50:12","slug":"asu-tsmc-partner-to-offer-free-technician-professional-program","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/791862\/","title":{"rendered":"ASU, TSMC partner to offer free technician professional program"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Arizona State University is collaborating with TSMC in offering a new free professional program to train technicians. It comes as the chipmaker is planning to expand its footprint in north Phoenix.<\/p>\n<p>According to a press release from the university, TSMC plans to hire more than 100 equipment technicians by the end of this year. Those techs are responsible for maintaining semiconductor equipment.<\/p>\n<p>Earlier this year, TSMC purchased about 900 additional acres near its current location off Loop 303 and I-17. The company says it will add new fabrication facilities, housing and recreation areas.<\/p>\n<p>TSMC has sped up the timeline of its expansion, as demand for the company\u2019s advanced chips has skyrocketed from the ongoing artificial intelligence boom.<\/p>\n<ul class=\"ListE-items\" data-list-loadmore-items=\"\">\n<li class=\"ListE-items-item\">\n<p>After 42 years, more than 3,000 restaurant reviews and countless profiles, features and more Phoenix Magazine food critic Nikki Buchanan is hanging up her signature wig disguise and retiring.<\/p>\n<\/li>\n<li class=\"ListE-items-item\">\n<p>The Arizona Commission on the Arts has published its five-year strategic plan as it faces potential funding cuts from the state.<\/p>\n<\/li>\n<li class=\"ListE-items-item\">\n<p>Arizona still has a supply and demand imbalance when it comes to housing, according to a new report from the Arizona-based think tank, Common Sense Institute.<\/p>\n<\/li>\n<li class=\"ListE-items-item\">\n<p>A small Arizona travel company is embroiled in a trademark dispute and civil litigation over its name with Scouting America \u2014 which was previously called the Boy Scouts.<\/p>\n<\/li>\n<li class=\"ListE-items-item\">\n<p>Each year, students from ASU\u2019s Master of Real Estate Development program work with cities and towns on a development proposal for a particular piece of land. One recent collaboration reimagined the site of the Turf Paradise horse racing track in north Phoenix.<\/p>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>\n                    Load More\n                <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Arizona State University is collaborating with TSMC in offering a new free professional program to train technicians. It&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":503065,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5131],"tags":[5229,5643,1587,1589,67,586,132,5230,68,2969],"class_list":{"0":"post-791862","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-phoenix","8":"tag-america","9":"tag-arizona","10":"tag-az","11":"tag-phoenix","12":"tag-united-states","13":"tag-united-states-of-america","14":"tag-unitedstates","15":"tag-unitedstatesofamerica","16":"tag-us","17":"tag-usa"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/791862","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=791862"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/791862\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/503065"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=791862"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=791862"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=791862"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}