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Pay high enough and people will tolerate everything that you describe. Just imagine if every chip assembly worker made 500K/year - would they care that upper m
by glimshe 3y ago
Pay high enough and people will tolerate everything that you describe.
Just imagine if every chip assembly worker made 500K/year - would they care that upper management isn't listening? No, they wouldn't. Would they be okay with 12h/day? A lot of people absolutely would.
The problem is rock bottom pay for rock bottom work environment.
- benterix 3y agoWhile I completely agree, there might be something else, i.e. the elephant in the room. While having TSMC factories in the USA is great for everyone, it's not ideal for Taiwan as a state. Therefore it's in the best interest of Taiwan to prolong the current situation where the whole world depends on TSMC factories located in Taiwan, and not anywhere else.
- m00x 3y agoTSMC Taiwan is keeping their leading-edge nodes in Taiwan with a 3-4 year delay, which appeased the Taiwanese public/officials. The bigger issue is that China might catch up to TSMC USA fabrication by the time that they actually start fabbing due to all these delays and China will have a superior chip capacity, making the defense aspect completely moot.
- Georgelemental 3y ago> Making the defense aspect completely moot The biggest defense aspect (for the US) is preserving supply in the face of a Chinese invasion of Taiwan, not beating China in chip capacity?
- m00x 3y agoI would not be opposed to the gov subsidizing 50% of salaries of chip manufacturer salaries to achieve this. It's a crucial part of industry growth and military superiority. We have some of the top-tier minds for chip design, we need top-tier manufacturing. Nvidia/TSMC has already proven that hardware superiority is a huge advantage. We absolutely need it.