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submitted 1 year ago by L4s@lemmy.world to c/technology@lemmy.world

The world's largest chipmaker promised to create thousands of US jobs. There are growing tensions over whether US workers have the skills or work ethic to do them.::Jobs at the TSMC semiconductor factory in Arizona could require long hours and total obedience. Americans may push back on the company's culture.

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[-] TwoGems@lemmy.world 5 points 1 year ago

Oh ok so we aren't being slaves enough is what they're saying

[-] Zuberi@lemmy.dbzer0.com 4 points 1 year ago

I mean FABs are very complex. If they're going to try to give the role to the uneducated poor folk (looking at you south USA), it's going to require extreme leadership conditions :(

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[-] JustZ@lemmy.world 3 points 1 year ago

Outrage bait.

[-] galilette@mander.xyz 3 points 1 year ago

You guys do know the affordability of the chips you're using to comment on this is a direct consequence of TSMC "efficiency", right?

[-] Spudwart@lemmy.world 5 points 1 year ago

TSMC doesn’t make everything.

There are morally abhorrent chip manufacturers in South Korea and Japan as well.

[-] avidamoeba@lemmy.ca 2 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

The manufacturing cost of the SoC in my phone is not at all at the top of the bill of materials. You could double the price of the SoC (or reduce TSMC manufacturing efficiency in half) and the price would go up by $50-80 at most. And I'm talking about top of the line SoCs like the Apple Bionic and Snapdragon 8 series. There won't be a significant market disruption if this happened. There's already an estimate of the increased cost of production in the US and it lies around 50% over the Taiwanese cost, so it's not even close to the above. That's $25-40 per top of the line phone extra.

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[-] wahming@monyet.cc -4 points 1 year ago

The comment in this thread are a good summary of why TSMC has concerns. I fully support workers rights of course. But from TSMC's perspective, WHY would they want to put up with all our 'crap' when they can continue operating in Taiwan with their standard practices?

[-] franklin@lemmy.world 2 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Fair point however I would rather have chip dependance than exploitation

[-] average650@lemmy.world -1 points 1 year ago

Because we have them money to do it.

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