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.

  • galilette@mander.xyz
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    1 year ago

    You guys do know the affordability of the chips you’re using to comment on this is a direct consequence of TSMC “efficiency”, right?

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      1 year ago

      TSMC doesn’t make everything.

      There are morally abhorrent chip manufacturers in South Korea and Japan as well.

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      1 year ago

      The manufacturing cost of the SoC in my phone is not at all at the top of the bill of materials. You could double the price of the SoC (or reduce TSMC manufacturing efficiency in half) and the price would go up by $50-80 at most. And I’m talking about top of the line SoCs like the Apple Bionic and Snapdragon 8 series. There won’t be a significant market disruption if this happened. There’s already an estimate of the increased cost of production in the US and it lies around 50% over the Taiwanese cost, so it’s not even close to the above. That’s $25-40 per top of the line phone extra.