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pleasemakesense@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

Nah didn’t you know every Asian country are developing countries fueled simply by American off shoring for lower wages?

I feel the competency issue is also something to just dismiss, Taiwan has large domestic workforce that’s been involved in high end chip making for many years, it’s natural you wouldn’t find the same level of expertise (on a large scale) that you would have in taiwan

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bassomitron@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago
I completely agree that Taiwan has had decades of shaping a consistent workforce capable of working within cutting edge chip foundries, while the US hasn’t really, outside of Intel’s foundries which are quite behind TSMC.

I feel the simple solution is for the US government to subsidize an intern/training program where Taiwanese engineers and line workers train US counterparts. I suggest the US subsidize it because our government is the main reason TSMC is even building foundries here to begin with (the DoD correctly views our reliance on TSMC as a critical national security issue due to open hostilities from China threatening Taiwan’s independence).

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