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You need an army of wizards who are willing to do, for the most part, lab-tech work for lab-tech salary while having a graduate degree in relevant field

• Taikonerd 10mo ago
  > for lab-tech salary This is something I don't understand. These companies make good profits -- why don't they pay their experts well?
  • mikelitoris 10mo ago
    Bean counters/“profesional execs” have been in charge for a long time (as is usually the case when founder CEOs leave/die), middle managers are box checkers that can’t differentiate good employees from bad employees and nobody cares as long as salary&stocks are deposited in their account. All of this gets lost in the cogs of the 100k employee machine.
  • fooker 10mo ago
    > These companies make good profits They don’t make good profits. TSMC has fairly mediocre numbers by the standard of the tech industry. Intel has really bad numbers for the last several decades. AMD was having so much trouble with foundries that they spun it off.
• octoberfranklin 10mo ago
  ...and work graveyard shift. That is actually a big part of how TSMC got ahead. It's a race. All those years of being able to get PhDs to work midnight-8am (because you're the most prestigious employer in the country, by far) move you to the next node just a bit faster. It adds up.
  • robocat 10mo ago
    > get PhDs to work midnight-8am Why work smarter or harder? Do both!