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It's not hyperbole tho. Quite a lot people work in shifts in TSMC.

• adrian_b 3y ago
  A few decades ago, I have worked for some years in an European semiconductor fab. There the R&D engineers also worked in 3 shifts, to follow experimental wafer batches all day. However, most of the time the R&D engineers worked in the normal shift. By rotation, a few worked in the evening shift and even fewer worked in the night shift, typically only when it was expected that after finishing some process step it will be necessary to measure test structures on the experimental silicon wafers and make decisions about process parameters for the following process steps. So work at least partially in shifts is really expected in such an environment, because it is inefficient and costly to stop the processing of a wafer batch and wait until next morning, when an R&D engineer would come and would decide what to do with the wafers next.