• Awoo [she/her]
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    2 years ago

    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.

    • anoncpc [comrade/them]
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      2 years ago

      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