I do find it funny that the engineers are blaming each other more than the absolute tragedy of fuck-ups by corporate management. How do you go into Arizona not understanding that the whole state is literally just a series of real-estate and construction grifts? It’s a city in a desert, it has to be that! Just bribe the motherfuckers with those subsides you received and be done with it!
Hey, in a few more years (honestly, with the rate this is going probably more like a decade) the Yanks will finally be able to slap “Made in America 🇺🇸” on the chips they use in their missile’s guidance systems! A huge win for the military industrial complex!
I don’t think the military cares too much about the nationalism of this. They care more about the continuation of semiconductor supremacy at the expense of Taiwanese people lol
nationalism maybe not per se, but for critical secure applications you want control of the whole fabrication process. i’m kinda surprised they’re not making stuff underground on some airforce base
The whole thing is ran by the weapons companies though. Do you think the people at the Pentagon writing these contracts can’t figure out that 50k for waste bin is a scam? Of course they know, they’re in on it.
And if some dipshit in Procurement happened to grow sentimental for good ol’ patriotism or whatever, the military will suddenly decide they care about war crimes or sexual assault and court martial him on the spot. If they don’t just whack him
by the time they get their shit together TSMC isn’t even gonna be the top manufacturer anymore
It’s very interesting to compare TSMC’s investments into Japan, which are coming online now, and this Arizona clusterfuck.
Reading between the lines, the Arizona deal was forced upon TSMC via the US and ROC governments and I highly doubt TSMC actually wants to be there.
I work for a multinational company that’s trying to nearshore some engineering work away from East Asia and into Eastern Europe. The official line is that they’re expanding the team, but the senior engineers aren’t stupid and know they’re being asked to train their replacements. Needless to say they’ve been stonewalling the process.
I expect this is also very much the case in TSMC as well. Even if you’re a rabid anti-communist, you’ll know that a tech transfer to the US loses Taiwan the only bargaining chip it has. Why would you play along?!
By the time they get their shit together, Russia is going to own the Donbas (source of neon and wheat, both of which China needs), and then China will own Taiwan.
TSMC better hurry up if they want to complete this while they’re still a company.
Donbas is a source of neon? tell me more, where do you even get neon from
Isn’t semiconductor production notoriously water intensive? Wouldn’t it make more sense to built the facility somewhere near a body of water and/or cold environment and not a place where the government issued warnings for people to stay indoors if they have no good reason to be outside because of the heat?
The American engineers complained of rigid, counterproductive hierarchies at the company; Taiwanese TSMC veterans described their American counterparts as lacking the kind of dedication and obedience they believe to be the foundation of their company’s world-leading success.
I 100% guarantee that the American engineers are just too racist to stomach the idea of taking orders from Asian people.
Honestly it’s probably both sides being racist to each other. The Taiwanese engineers know that this plant in the US is so that the US doesn’t have to defend Taiwan. There’s not much room for solidarity when that’s what all this is for.
Don’t forget that the work culture in Taiwan is not healthy either.
