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I'd bet even faster. The West pretends that Taiwan is another country with another totally alien set of people who hate the mainland. However, that is not real
by t324oi234j3434 3y ago
I'd bet even faster.
The West pretends that Taiwan is another country with another totally alien set of people who hate the mainland. However, that is not really the case. I imagine it's fairly easy to poach TSMC personnel, who well now realize that Taiwanese semi-conductor industry is going to be ruined by American meddling in the coming decade (much like they did of Japan's).
- DeathArrow 3y ago> I imagine it's fairly easy to poach TSMC personnel They already did that. They offered some TSMC engineers much better payment and they built 5nm and 7nm fab processes for SMIC using DUV instead of EUV. :) To add insult to the injury, Huawei released their Kirin 9000s CPU during US secretary of commerce visit in China.
- maxglute 3y agoI think TW banned semi workers from working in PRC for triple pay, after banning TW recruiters from helping PRC poach TW workers didn't work. Meanwhile, TW semi workers still underpaid and overworked.
- hunglee2 3y agothis is true, there is an 'export restriction' for TW workers going to the mainland in certain industries, especially SC