4 ms·

... Fab + design... its apples to oranges. TSMC for example has 77k employees and looking to add 23k more. Packaging and testing are labor intensive, and req

... Fab + design... its apples to oranges. TSMC for example has 77k employees and looking to add 23k more. Packaging and testing are labor intensive, and require folks to be added in different geographies.

dlcarrier 2y ago
GlobalFoundries: 12k employees SMIC: 20k employees UMC: 20k employees TSMC only has that many employees because they have a nearly 2/3rd market share of all ASIC production.