4 ms·
> A semiconductor fab does not require that many people so the wages should not matter that much. Likely thousands to tens-of-thousands of employees on-site a
by datpiff 4y ago
> A semiconductor fab does not require that many people so the wages should not matter that much.
Likely thousands to tens-of-thousands of employees on-site at all times for fabs of this size.
Most employees in the US won't be earning minimum wages, that hasn't been the case in the past.
- flakeoil 4y agoWhatever the number, relatively speaking, it's basically peanuts compared to the number and value of the wafers and chips they are spitting out. It's advanced machines doing most of it, and there is an operator handling each machine. The machines are extremely expensive, the building is extremely expensive, the ventilation/filtration/air control system is expensive etc. These are not smartphone factories. What is expensive is running these fabs/lines at half the capacity.
- datpiff 4y agoYeah I agree. Mostly just don't like the use of num jobs x minimum wage - I don't think it's a useful comparison for fabs. > These are not smartphone factories. Exactly!
- eggy 4y agoI used min. wage as a Fermi solution - back of the envelope - since I am not an industry expert or insider and the product was an HN comment. The article about the Ohio plant was quoted for the 50,000 jobs figure. I am interested in manufacturing in general coming back to the U.S., so it intrigued me that S. Korea is making the "world's largest chip center" contrasted with all of the news I've been hearing over the past 5 years about chip manufacturing as an investment strategy in the U.S.