TSMC is delaying its Arizona foundry over a lack of skilled workers alongsde a $5.85B income slump - eviltoast
That's a brutal double whammy of a delay to the vaunted N3 production fab in Arizona to 2025 and a drop in its projected revenue.
  • TWeaK@lemm.eeEnglish
    194·
    1 year ago

    I can assure you, engineers are out there who want to work in the US - both local and foreign. They just don’t want to work in Arizona.

    The climate in California is already bad enough, but at least Cali has some upsides.

    • PuppetPantheon@lemmy.sdf.orgEnglish
      15·
      1 year ago

      You do know that AZ is one of the largest engineering states in the country right? Motorola, Stryker, Infosys,Cisco,Honeywell, Raytheon, general dynamics, on semiconductor. And more that I don’t want to type all have r&d and fab in or near PHX. This is all about TSMC coming in thinking they are hot shot and that their name is worth more that the paycheck.

      • quicksand@lemmy.worldEnglish
        4·
        1 year ago

        You forgot the highest volume Intel fab in the world XD. But you’re right Arizona at least has nice weather almost half of the year and tons of hot jobs in tech. The issue is with the work culture at TSMC and not the location

        • indetermin8@lemmy.worldEnglish
          1·
          1 year ago

          and tons of hot jobs in tech You probably didn’t intend the pun, but you made a good one anyway.

      • PuppetPantheon@lemmy.sdf.orgEnglish
        36·
        1 year ago

        Cali is for pumping consumers as much as possible az is making the most advanced systems the military can think of. It’s not a shortage of qualified engineers

    • Dr. Dabbles@lemmy.worldEnglish
      21·
      1 year ago

      Giving green cards for Arizona isn’t the issue, people will work where they’re paid. The point I’m making is that TSMC is going to have to offer green cards for this work in the first place.