America is building chip factories. Now to find the workers
www.economist.com
The country’s chipmaking goals will test its manufacturing potential
  • Car@lemmy.dbzer0.com
    3·
    1 year ago

    Now to find the cheap enough workers who won’t complain about things like good working conditions and receptive management teams

    • cduke23@beehaw.orgEnglish
      2·
      1 year ago

      I should’ve read the article before commenting. It’s absolute horseshit.

      A big chunk of the article is TSMC whining about the construction industry and fab workers.

      Intel has 2 fabs already in AZ with 2 more on the way the way in AZ with the same resources as TSMC. Additionally they have a huge existing site in Oregon, another couple of fans in New Mexico, and are building a new fab in Ohio.

      Not to mention, Samsung is building a monster site in TX.

      So far it’s only TSMC trying to pull resources from Taiwan because they don’t like the same construction services that are building Intel/Samsung fabs. The economist is then backing them up by calling for more immigration in order to support the semiconductor industry which is the opposite point of the CHIPS act.

      If Intel and Samsung aren’t complaining, and are on-track, we should probably not let TSMC get away with bending the rules because people want to get paid a living wage and work reasonable hours.