Tbh it doesn't even sound like TSMC were trying to make it work. I wonder if these American plants are meant to be potemkin villages with low outputs just to please the American government. But seems like Intel is able to make fabrication facilities in the USA work, so it should be possible.
Yep, that's exactly what it sounds. Just another scheme to launder tax payer money into private hands. However, it is certainly interesting to read about the toxic work culture.
The company gets the government grants either way, and with the money they save from not funding the facility properly, they have spare cash to bribe politicians to secure more funding. It's the perfect system!
Tbh it doesn't even sound like TSMC were trying to make it work. I wonder if these American plants are meant to be potemkin villages with low outputs just to please the American government. But seems like Intel is able to make fabrication facilities in the USA work, so it should be possible.
Yep, that's exactly what it sounds. Just another scheme to launder tax payer money into private hands. However, it is certainly interesting to read about the toxic work culture.
The company gets the government grants either way, and with the money they save from not funding the facility properly, they have spare cash to bribe politicians to secure more funding. It's the perfect system!
They knew the American workers wouldn't accept the level of exploitation necessary to mske their business model work.
It's definitely a token factory just to get these subsidies, they will shutdown that factory whenever they stop these subsidies i guarantee it.