Taiwan chipmaker TSMC is feeling "good" about talks towards setting up its first European factory in Germany, where it is in subsidy discussions with the government, the company's chairman said on Tuesday.
Yeah, the May issue of Wired magazine had a lengthy portrayal of TSMC as a company and their work ethic apparently made it very difficult to bring in American employees of TSMC to the HQ in Taiwan. Considering EU labor laws and German work-life balance priorities, not sure how well this can go 😅
thanks for pointing that out, interesting insights in that article, but wow that was the worst piece of writing I had to endure in a long time. It’s amazing how you can say so little with so much text.
Yeeeaaaahhhhh, I usually enjoy Virginia Heffernan’s writing, but this piece was something else. Too dreamy and poetic for most of it. Like, I get that you metaphorically stared God in the face considering the nano-tech going on in TSMC’s fabs and that you want to convey a sense of absolute awe… but it gets tiring really fast
Curious how they will understand and adapt to German work ethics and laws.
They will just outsource the actual manufacturing to Easter European countries with atrocious labor laws.
I hope I’m not right.
Yeah, the May issue of Wired magazine had a lengthy portrayal of TSMC as a company and their work ethic apparently made it very difficult to bring in American employees of TSMC to the HQ in Taiwan. Considering EU labor laws and German work-life balance priorities, not sure how well this can go 😅
thanks for pointing that out, interesting insights in that article, but wow that was the worst piece of writing I had to endure in a long time. It’s amazing how you can say so little with so much text.
Yeeeaaaahhhhh, I usually enjoy Virginia Heffernan’s writing, but this piece was something else. Too dreamy and poetic for most of it. Like, I get that you metaphorically stared God in the face considering the nano-tech going on in TSMC’s fabs and that you want to convey a sense of absolute awe… but it gets tiring really fast
Is chip production labor intensive? My guess would be that the labor is negligible, compared to the cost for machines, knowhow etc.
Yes, it is. Of course a lot of things are automated, but the amount of effort needed to run a fan efficiently is just insane.
Here’s a video about the exactly same discussion, just with regards to the US
https://youtu.be/jlAWx_X5opA