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A feud is heating up between Arizona workers and the world's leading chipmaker after the company claimed the US doesn't have the skills to build its new factory (www.businessinsider.com)
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A feud is heating up between Arizona workers and the world's leading chipmaker after the company claimed the US doesn't have the skills to build its new factory::TSMC wants to bring in foreign reinforcements to get its Arizona factory running because it claims there aren't enough qualified local workers.

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[โ€“] [email protected] 0 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

Agreed. It seems that the arguments here have more to do with time. I'm totally making an assumption here, but wouldn't catching up with the Taiwanese take at least half a generation of time to learn the craft properly let alone make innovative advances in semiconductor manufacturing and architecture?

[โ€“] quicksand 2 points 1 year ago

No, Intel tried a novel architecture (different from TSMC) and it was found to be unviable. They basically wasted a few years going down the wrong path. They have incredible engineers and will catch up. We're at a point where the technology is limited by the machines they buy, which Intel and TSMC have the same vendors. They are behind because they went down a fruitless path, but they switched course and are now playing catch-up