Why tie a national security asset to such a hot button thing like Taiwan with all its cultural and language barriers than say an existing US based company liie Texas Instruments, IBM, intel ect? Now you got all these billions of investment tied to an AUKUS sensitive geopolitical saber rattling hot pot. Thats fucking stupid from a risk standpoint.
None of those companies manufacture computer chips, only designed them
Intel only started making after the chips act
This is just a repeat of that foxconn LCD panel manufacturing debacle in Minnesota a couple years ago.
i remember every ghoulish politician patting themselves on the back on the news, being like “wowie! this new foxconn plant will make so many new jobs!” before the deal collapsed and they went on to drop 500 million dollars on the brewers while Milwaukee slowly dies a painful death!
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.
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?
