Posted on 05/28/2022 1:48:32 AM PDT by blam
With respect to the semiconductor manufacturing, the subject of this OP, I expect the technician roles to be dominated by life science and chemists. Manufacturing and QC dominated by EE and a smattering of chemists, ME and ChE. Maintenance and support by EE, computer engineering and ME and a few ChE. Engineering Department to be heavy on EE, computer specialists and ME plus a few ChE.
History, psychology and political science majors need not apply. Starbucks is down the road.
Well they aren’t very smart then. Trying to partner with the political morass of a state university that produces uneducated morons is not a winning strategy.
“ Hey, chips need silicon and there’s a lot of sand in that desert.”
The Phoenix metro is actually known as the ‘Silicon Desert’ though not because of sand but because it’s a fast growing tech hub. (No sand in Silicon Valley either)
Intel has fallen behind TSMC . Apple’s M1 series of chips (manufactured by TSMC) are kicking butt and Intel has nothing like it and won’t for years.
Comment tongue in cheek. Silicon used in chips has to be super low in impurities and most normal desert sands wouldn’t be usable/practical for processing.
“Kweilin Waller, deputy human services director at the Phoenix Business and Workforce Development Board, commented: “You say ‘semiconductor manufacturing’ [to potential recruits], people look at you like you have two heads. It’s just unfamiliar.”
Now thats just how well a job “educators” have done!!! Intel has been there for YEARS!
From India ?
“TSMC doesn’t have the history that Intel does with the university to attract such talent as easily.”
Has TSMC ever trained ANYBODY for a job?
Ever sought out partnerships with training organizations/schools?
Nah, just import the low-cost, VISA begging un-americans.
In Columbus, Ohio site of the second Intel Plant “Community Leaders” are demanding that Intel guarantee they will hire workers from the inter-city and the disadvantaged.
The first shovel of dirt hasn’t been turned and the race hustlers are already looking for a payoff.
It has been discovered that Arizona is California thirty years ago, and the great land rush is on. Problem won’t be lack of water but lack of ability to keep Democrats from rigging Arizona’s election system, the way they did in California after the shock recall of Gray Davis in 2002.
The Tampa Bay region of Florida would have been a better choice...
Yeah, but it's a "dry heat."
No hurricanes in Arizona. And the chip making plants use less water than golf courses.
TSMC otherwise known as Taiwan Semiconductor, was founded in Taiwan. It never “went overseas,” it began there.
They don’t make chips out of sand.
See #26.
Made from quartz mined from quartz mines. Although many sands have a large quartz content, way too “dirty” with other stuff to be practical for producing silicon wafters.
“I keep telling my granddaughters that STEM is their best bet to get a free ride for college.”
and subsequent employment and financial opportunities ...
“History, psychology and political science majors need not apply.”
don’t they need a few folks to clean the office floors and empty the trash cans?
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