TSMC says the opening of its Arizona chip factory has been delayed due to a shortage of skilled workers. The company says it needs to bring Taiwanese workers to Arizona to get construction back on track. An Arizona union says US jobs are being threatened — and is urging lawmakers to deny the workers’ visas.
As others have said, we have plenty of workers here who can and will do the job, the issue is they don’t want to hire union employees who will do the work to current building codes. :)
Funny how Intel isn’t running into that with their big investments in Arizona and New Mexico, but it looks like they are hitting a more generalized worker shortage with their $20B plant in Ohio.
Maybe that’s the problem, Intel is snapping them all up? ¯\_(ツ)_/¯ They’re definitely here. We have a couple big campuses in our back yard…
Intel is an American company. TSMC is a Taiwanese company. It’s not surprising that America doesn’t have the personnel to work on proprietary systems manufactured and designed in Taiwan.