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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.

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[-] jet@hackertalks.com 170 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

They never finished the sentence in the news articles.

Business unable to find the labor it needs! Is usually where they stop they leave out the "at the price they want". From the sentence.

It really should say business unable to find the labor it needs at the price it wants

Journalists really shouldn't let businesses get away with not saying the quiet part out loud.

Very rarely is it really something like there's 13 people in the world who can do this. And none of them live here. That's an interesting story, but that's not the story that's often told. It's usually local laborers too expensive we want to import some external labor that's less expensive. At least in the United States then they craft a job specification that can't be matched locally but it's tailored specifically for an external candidate to get a visa.

[-] ChicoSuave@lemmy.world 1 points 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.

[-] pixelfelon@discuss.tchncs.de 3 points 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.

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