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>Moving 1,000 employees from Taiwan to Arizona won’t work, she added. Fab employees must be part of the local culture. That strategy may have some shortcomings,
by hnburnsy 5y ago
>Moving 1,000 employees from Taiwan to Arizona won’t work, she added. Fab employees must be part of the local culture. That strategy may have some shortcomings, however. Arizona employees are mainly recent graduates who have “zero working experience,”according to Gao. “Most of them probably have never been to Asia. So cross-cultural communication and collaboration is very important.”
AZ has 10 semiconductor plants in AZ across 6 different companies not including the new TSMC one. There will be plenty of employees to recruit who have experience. I am sure this was a primary reason for selecting the site in AZ.
>The biggest may be moving the entire supply chain of test-and-assembly companies and materials suppliers to the U.S., according to the principal engineer in Taiwan.
ASML, Applied Materials, LCY, Chang Chun Group, and Nova have or are building facilities in AZ. There will be plenty of suppliers and experience for TSMC to choose from.
How can the article be so poorly researched as to not mention this?
- j_walter 5y agoThey don't want experienced people from other fabs. That's the whole point...forming a former Intel engineer to the TSMC way is extremely difficult and the success rate is extremely low. A recent grad is malleable and they don't have preconceptions about how they did things at the last place they worked (that fell behind in the technology race).
- disillusioned 5y agoHell, the semiconductor industry is what brought my family out to Arizona in 1993. My dad was transferred as a packaging engineer for Olin Chemical when they opened their high purity doping chemicals plant in Mesa, Arizona. At the time, I believe they were supplying to Motorola which eventually became On Semiconductor and Freescale/NXP. Oh, and Intel has had a fab in Chandler since 1980, and the massive Fab 12 site since 1996. And they're building two new fabs for $20B. If there's literally anywhere in the US equipped for the semiconductor supply chain... it's here in Arizona.
- rbanffy 5y ago> Arizona employees are mainly recent graduates who have “zero working experience,” But, hey, they are much cheaper and tolerant to long hours.