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Do gigafab manufactures like that really create high income jobs? I assumed it was mostly low income close to minimum wage kind of thing. On a similar tangeant
by didibus 6y ago
Do gigafab manufactures like that really create high income jobs? I assumed it was mostly low income close to minimum wage kind of thing.
On a similar tangeant, how are these able to compete with similar manufacturing done in Asia or Africa?
- valvar 6y agoI don't know anything about how they are run, but I would assume you need a large number of on-site engineers and process overseers. What are the low-income jobs? Security?
- didibus 6y agoI thought it was mostly assembly line workers putting parts together, with machines doing the rest. Kinda like what this photo shows: https://bit.ly/3a8uRFM https://bit.ly/3a8uRFM
- sgerenser 6y agoThat’s board assembly, not chip fabrication.
- f430 6y agoSo you admit you were ignorant. That's a rarity on here. People will defend their wrong views here because they don't want to hear they aren't a polymath.
- adriancr 6y agoThis is how it looks like now: https://www.extremetech.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/12/TSMC-Semiconductor.jpg https://www.extremetech.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/12/TSMC-... Machines feed each other via conveyor belts, everything automated, tight control loops check/move things around. Notice the difference in human presence.
- barbacoa 6y agoAverage salary is probably around $100k. Even the techs with high school educations can make in the range of $40-60 an hour and generous overtime. >On a similar tangeant, how are these able to compete with similar manufacturing done in Asia or Africa? Because it is all high skill labor. Techs that are able to strip down a 10 MM machine and identify the source of sub micron particule contamination are worth their weight in gold.
- pwdisswordfish0 6y agoThey may be costing the company the equivalent of $40–60/hr, but more realistically, techs are starting at < $20/hr and have to spend years on the payroll of a third-party staffing company.
- barbacoa 6y agoThat's a good point, $40-60/hr is the pay for seniors level techs. Entry level techs are making much less and are employed through staffing companies.
- mech422 6y ago>>Average salary is probably around $100k. Even the techs with high school educations can make in the range of $40-60 an hour and generous overtime. Do you have a source for that? I'm surprised as when I contracted at the Intel fab in PHX, the workers in the actual fab were not making anything close to that. Management maybe, but not actual line workers. The standing joke was "they were working for the stock"...
- JohnJamesRambo 6y agoWere they working for the stock?
- didibus 6y agoI found this which has a manufacturing plant section. No idea how accurate: https://www.zippia.com/intel-careers-6055/salary/#by-job-title https://www.zippia.com/intel-careers-6055/salary/#by-job-tit...