Inside TSMC’s struggle to build a chip factory in the U.S. suburbs
Inside TSMC’s struggle to build a chip factory in the U.S. suburbs
Missed deadlines and tension among Taiwanese and American coworkers are plaguing the chip giant’s Phoenix expansion.
"Hi TSMC. Could you build a massive pseudo village/factory where you indoctrinate the locals with your toxic work culture, sending your managers to act as overlords for our under-educated workers? We will pay you."
"You want us to basically colonize a town in Arizona?"
"Ummm... Yeah"
18You heard it here first folks, the US is too soft on labour.
14that's right, gonna have to turn that exploitation way up
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Tbh it doesn't even sound like TSMC were trying to make it work. I wonder if these American plants are meant to be potemkin villages with low outputs just to please the American government. But seems like Intel is able to make fabrication facilities in the USA work, so it should be possible.
14Yep, that's exactly what it sounds. Just another scheme to launder tax payer money into private hands. However, it is certainly interesting to read about the toxic work culture.
12The company gets the government grants either way, and with the money they save from not funding the facility properly, they have spare cash to bribe politicians to secure more funding. It's the perfect system!
8They knew the American workers wouldn't accept the level of exploitation necessary to mske their business model work.
5It's definitely a token factory just to get these subsidies, they will shutdown that factory whenever they stop these subsidies i guarantee it.
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Wow, from reading the article, the taiwanese work culture sounds hellish. I am pretty sure that this type of work culture can be found where I live as well but damn I am lucky than I am not in a hell like the one described in the article.
12yeah it kinda borders slave labor
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What the hell? This article is so wild and TSMC is so “satanic” I actually felt sorry for the American workers.
10This part was a crazy read for me:
One former American engineer said some local co-workers referred to him as a “white breeding pig,” implying he was only in Taiwan to sleep with local women. At a meeting, a manager said Americans were less desirable than Taiwanese and Indian workers, according to people who saw leaked notes, which circulated among trainees.
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