Posted on 07/21/2023 9:35:25 AM PDT by zeestephen
Chipmaking giant Taiwan Semiconductor (TSMC) has delayed the start of production at its factory in the US state of Arizona, in a setback to President Biden's technology ambitions. The firm says chip manufacturing will no longer start next year, due to a shortage of skilled workers...TSMC Chairman Mark Liu said the plant, which has been under construction since April 2021, faced a shortage of workers with the "specialised expertise required for equipment installation in a semiconductor-grade facility."
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Most chip production workers can be completely trained up in less than a month.
However, I will guess there is a chronic shortage (or suplus) of workers who install equipment, depending on the number of chip fabs that are opening during a given time period.
I worked in the silicon wafer business in the 1990s.
It took a full crew of German techs and engineers a month to install and test two new wafer furnaces in my fab.
Unfortunate headline.
It’s a trick to bring in foreign workers from Taiwan you know it and I know it and President Retard will fall for it
Let the chips fall where they may in Biden’s case you might not want to step on them.
Refugees from the Chicom Invasion?
How many billions in taxpayer funds and tax incentives did they already receive?
We don’t need skilled workers. We need workers filled to the brim with self-esteem.
blow to Biden?....................
I would tend to believe your take. Though I also have little doubt that China may well have a lot to do with TSM’s actions. IMO, TSM, meaning their plant and facility, is the crown jewel of what China wants w/Taiwan...over and above, certainly equal to their cultural rhetoric. I hope to high heaven there exists a way to disable that plant in the event of an invasion
RE: The firm says chip manufacturing will no longer start next year, due to a shortage of skilled workers…
What the heck is this? I lived and worked in Taiwan for 4 years and more or less speak and even read adequate Mandarin and even Taiwanese when TSMC was still in its early phase in the late 1980’s. Most of the Taiwanese engineers working at TSMC were EDUCATED IN THE USA! The worked side by side with AMERICAN engineers!
Now we’re having a shortage of skilled workers in the very same country that trained them? Unbelievable!!
The article mentions skilled workers three times without distinguishing between production and installation workers.
I was trying to clarify an important issue.
Bring in the workers. You don’t want them to be captives if/when Taiwan falls. Trump wants the best. Win win.
Then there’s the article suggesting the navy may outsource it’s shipbuilding to Japan and S. Korea. The reason-delays and cost overruns in our defense(deep state) contractors. Could doing the right thing cost us a senate seat in the South? Only if we don’t have a 55 seat majority.
There is a worldwide shortage of experienced semiconductor people.
Personally I think TSMC was hoping to grab people from Intel in Chandler, AZ.
That artificial intelligence chip that Biden expected to get implanted to get some smarts, will have to be delayed.
“specialized expertise required for equipment installation
it’s not production workers, sounds like they can’t get the equipment installed...
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