Maybe they should have thought about this possibility and started a training program BEFORE they built the fab? Just a crazy idea.

Anecdote- most of my skilled friends working in chip fabs jumped over to software jobs a few tears ago. Software pays better for easier and significantly less hazardous work.

this is actually a huge issue with a lot of important jobs in america - they aren't valued commensurate to the work and value.

So many fields that require high skills and a lot of education pay far too little compared to software/analytics. One works just as hard but the pay is not comparable - it doesn't make economic sense to do a lot of the non-software jobs.

+1 to that. Also TSMC pay is not that good in Taiwan anyway. That's how China was successful in poaching previously. You can't compare the warchests

TSMC made over $200 billion in profit last year. Higher salaries stop mattering at some point for most people.

Yes, the company makes profit, but they underpay the employees

About NT$1.01 trillion, or $33 Billion USD?

https://focustaiwan.tw/business/202303030016

I would have thought the buildout of the facility would take long enough for TSMC to set up and begin a comprehensive training pipeline for workers, but apparently not.

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Behind like most other Verge posts.

Lots of discussion over here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36799059

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