TSMC is focusing on Customer success like Apple, Nvdia, Qualcomm etc for many years. All these big names create way higher paying jobs to American. I don’t see why US so obsessed with making chips in the US unless the National Defense issue.
Usually yes, and it's lacking in trained people for such jobs but, In this case it is that Taiwan has a 20 year lead in all the supporting industries on the same island. They have everything they need in a small area. The problem is they are running out of island and more importantly water for making chips. Water is an incredibly important resource in today's chip-making from every step. The chips act will fail if we don't bring out mining and chemical plants up to chip making standards.
Not at all, US government allocated resources on other more important fields like military,weapons,aircraft,space , medical , biological research and development. So other countries can share their work to make human life better.
The issue is... US talents won't work like this much, with dedication. The talents might as well work in different industry. Japan started co-op with TSMC later the the AZ plants, and Japan fab is already operational.
Intel is rapidly catching up. South Korea is also very close. Don't forget that Nvidia went with Samsung for Ampere! TSMC is mighty and indispensable, but not a total monopoly.
it's unpossible to reproduce tsmc logistic in the us... no local competence and trillions necessary in investment and more than 20 years maybe to build it
You need knowledge of mass production, experience, advanced equipment, and dedicated workers to produce high-end chips, and these are the main problems in the US.
TSMC took 11.6 billion from the government in grants/loans and given a ton of land that is sitting there doing nothing. They should at least be charged higher interest on the US tax dollars if they don’t provide the jobs promised.
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Yes, it is possible to make chips in US. Chips are made by machines, not manual labour. These machines are made in Europe. It is easier to talk in English to Americans, than to Asians. I see no issue and look forward to chips made in US.
You don’t just “get the machine” and have it up and running in a day. It’s not a game console that you can more or less plug and play, and it’s a HUGE operation; both in size and number of them needed to replace the volume being pumped out in the foreigns as we speak
The biggest issue is the difference in corporate culture. Taiwanese tech industry talents are extremely dedicated, often working without taking breaks. If the same system were implemented in the US, it would not work. Americans place a high value on work-life balance, but the chip manufacturing industry is highly competitive and requires constant innovation to develop the latest nanometer chips. Therefore, achieving full "rest" and "off-hours" is difficult. Additionally, it is not cost-effective for TSMC to set up plants in the US. TSMC collaborates with thousands of companies, and these companies (the supply chain) are all in Taiwan. Simply moving TSMC to the US is useless. Besides the high labor costs, the raw materials would have to be shipped from Taiwan, significantly increasing the costs. Hence, the idea of setting up TSMC plants in the US is very naive. Additionally, the Taiwanese employees at TSMC have excellent English skills (a primary requirement for joining TSMC is a high level of English proficiency), so there are no language barrier issues.
