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...That facility will be the company’s second in the US. The first, which is also in Arizona and was announced in 2020 under the Trump administration, will begin production next year....
...In a sign of how far relations have soured, the two companies traded barbs publicly in the past few days....
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...(For non-fans, this isn’t exactly what Swift was getting at. But the point of internet aphorisms is that — to borrow from another one — they can be whatever you want them to be.)...
...The new plan will allow Nvidia and other sellers of AI chips to shift some of their orders from Taiwan to Arizona....
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