Disagree, in big political situations like this there's plenty of dissidents. And people who work in such a Western-aligned industry, who are solidly middle class and likely to have absorbed ~Western values~ as a result are more likely to flee overseas.
Also, the US has more than enough technical talent to make semiconductors in the US. The reason why industry gets off-shored is because making physical goods has a lower rate of profit than "services" or vaporware programming, so it pays like shit. If the US needed people, they'd raise salaries to attract people to switch.
No, this isn't correct at all. TSMC is literally the only company in the world capable of producing semiconductors at the level they do and it's already been evaluated that moving that operation elsewhere would take at least 20 years because the knowledge the workforce has is simply not available elsewhere. This shit isn't just about moving a few workers and then training some new people to get shit done it's at the cutting edge and requires the workers that have been doing it for decades over multiple generations of the technology that understand multiple generations of the process.
Intel, Samsung and a dozen other companies literally send all their shit to TSMC to have them do a little piece of the process that they can't do themselves. If they could do it anywhere else they absolutely would, they just can't.
And by the time they do manage to get operations up and running at the current generation they will be 20 years behind.
Lol, he act semiconductor industry like assembly or something. It’s a high bar to get in while compensation not equal to industry like software engineer or wall street
You overestimate the technical talents the US have in semiconductor. It’s a high bar industry to get in, and you have to work in a lab, wear protective clothing since the lab have to be clean, as opposed to software engineer. High compensation, easier and you could work at home, or finance sector which has been taking talents from every industry of the US because how high the compensation is. You can’t also attract peoples just by raising salary, when the location they’re relocating might not conform their taste
i imagine they'll move some of the researchers and engineers out, especially if they dont have the expertise elsewhere.
That's up to those researches and engineers, who have friends and family in Taiwan and the mainland. People are sticky.
Disagree, in big political situations like this there's plenty of dissidents. And people who work in such a Western-aligned industry, who are solidly middle class and likely to have absorbed ~Western values~ as a result are more likely to flee overseas.
Also, the US has more than enough technical talent to make semiconductors in the US. The reason why industry gets off-shored is because making physical goods has a lower rate of profit than "services" or vaporware programming, so it pays like shit. If the US needed people, they'd raise salaries to attract people to switch.
No, this isn't correct at all. TSMC is literally the only company in the world capable of producing semiconductors at the level they do and it's already been evaluated that moving that operation elsewhere would take at least 20 years because the knowledge the workforce has is simply not available elsewhere. This shit isn't just about moving a few workers and then training some new people to get shit done it's at the cutting edge and requires the workers that have been doing it for decades over multiple generations of the technology that understand multiple generations of the process.
Intel, Samsung and a dozen other companies literally send all their shit to TSMC to have them do a little piece of the process that they can't do themselves. If they could do it anywhere else they absolutely would, they just can't.
And by the time they do manage to get operations up and running at the current generation they will be 20 years behind.
Lol, he act semiconductor industry like assembly or something. It’s a high bar to get in while compensation not equal to industry like software engineer or wall street
You overestimate the technical talents the US have in semiconductor. It’s a high bar industry to get in, and you have to work in a lab, wear protective clothing since the lab have to be clean, as opposed to software engineer. High compensation, easier and you could work at home, or finance sector which has been taking talents from every industry of the US because how high the compensation is. You can’t also attract peoples just by raising salary, when the location they’re relocating might not conform their taste
I know ;)
if they're important enough the amount of money they'll put in front of these people will be astronomical
I think they'll fail at that but a brain drain in Taiwan over Pelosi's visit would be hilarious.