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.
Localization makes up for a large portion of the increased labor costs. The cost of production difference is most likely to be a wash because it’s spread across the output of millions of chips.