TSMC wants to bring in foreign reinforcements to get its Arizona factory running because it claims there aren't enough qualified local workers.

A feud is heating up between Arizona workers and the world’s leading chipmaker after the company claimed the US doesn’t have the skills to build its new factory::TSMC wants to bring in foreign reinforcements to get its Arizona factory running because it claims there aren’t enough qualified local workers.

  • ChicoSuave@lemmy.worldEnglish
    7·
    1 year ago

    A world leading bleeding edge chip maker is looking at building in the desert and claims there’s not enough resources to do it. Sounds like Arizona doesn’t have enough chip knowledge, which is believable because there are no other chip or silicon manufacturing in the state.

    What is Arizona proposing as a solution? Because TSMC is already saying they have an answer to the “not enough talent” problem and are paying god knows what to fly some of the best educated architects in the world over and house them in a place that no one wants to be.

    It sounds like you don’t understand the problem.

    • ChickenBoo@lemmy.jnks.xyzEnglish
      4·
      1 year ago

      No other chip production in the state?

      Intel has several fabs in Chandler, AZ. They have down to 10 nm there, with 5nm being their best. So there definitely is a chunk of knowledge in the state.

      https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Intel_manufacturing_sites

      This article states several others: https://www.chipsetc.com/semiconductor-companies-in-arizona.html

      Seems like semiconductors are kind of a big deal in and around Chandler which is presumably why TSMC chose there.

    • pixelfelon@discuss.tchncs.deEnglish
      3·
      1 year ago

      It is very inaccurate to say there is no other chip or silicon manufacturing in the state. There is a ton in Phoenix - Microchip has multiple fabs and is headquartered in Scottsdale, there’s also NXP, ON Semi, Intel, probably more that I don’t know about. It’s not the exact same technology that TSMC is building (AFAIK), but there is definitely a strong semiconductor industry in Arizona.

    • quicksand@lemm.eeEnglish
      1·
      1 year ago

      The highest volume Intel fab in the world is in Arizona, about an hour from the TSMC site. TSMC has been trying to poach people from Intel by offering them more money. However many people are rejecting their offer, despite the pay raise, due to the toxic work culture at TSMC and possibly a longer commute.

    • dhorse@lemmy.worldEnglish
      1·
      1 year ago

      Sounds like Arizona doesn’t have enough chip knowledge, which is believable because there are no other chip or silicon manufacturing in the state.

      Dude you are so wrong. Intel has MASSIVE fabs there and are building an even larger one on Chandler, Motorola has built chips in AZ at many different locations for 30+ years, Honeywell, Nokia, etc. ALL have plants there. It is colloquially known as the Silicon Desert because of this.