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TSMC's $65 billion Arizona facility can now match Taiwan production yields according to early trials | TechSpot

TSMC's $65 billion Arizona facility can now match Taiwan production yields according to early trials

https://www.techspot.com/news/104622-tsmc-arizona-facility-matches-taiwan-production-yields-early.html

Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Co. has reached a significant milestone in its expansion into the US. Recent trial production at the company's new Arizona facility has yielded results...

TSMC's $65 billion Arizona facility can now match Taiwan production yields according to early trials

26 comments

sunzu2

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Didnt they recently run headlines that Americans are lazy sack of shit that don't want to work free unscheduled overtime ?

ChocoboRocket

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The initial plan had been for the first fab to achieve full production this year, but the timeline was delayed due to several workforce challenges. These included difficulties in finding skilled workers locally, cultural differences between TSMC's Taiwanese management and American employees, and a shortage of skilled construction workers that slowed the building process. This delay raised concerns about TSMC's ability to maintain efficiency with its US operations compared to its facilities in Taiwan.

Recent success in trial production has alleviated some of these concerns. TSMC has confirmed that the Arizona project is progressing as planned, although the company has not commented specifically on yield rates.

sunzu2

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Corporate komissar spotted

I guess they are learning that creating proper incentive structures works better than running some clown PR campaign about management failures.

A man can dream!

olympicyes

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Corporate kommisar copy and pasted directly from the article.

Ilovethebomb

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The headlines I saw were more blaming TSMC management for the misunderstanding, but yes, that did happen.

Damage

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Meanwhile EU: "I sleep"

Yeah cool, let's keep depending on other countries for stuff our whole economies are based on.

kameecoding

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I mean, EU did pass the ECA, "problem" with the EU is you are not as free to abuse your workforce as in Asia and in the USA, so the cost of labor is higher.

huginn

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You're not abusing extremely high skill workers who can easily get a new job elsewhere. Not if you want high profit margins.

Wizard_Pope

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Oh but the TAMC work culture is practically abuse

huginn

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TSMC is an exceptionally high paying job in Taiwan and they can't go anywhere else.

AwesomeLowlander

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In the context of Asian work environments, it's par for the course and much higher paid than the alternatives. Since the workers don't consider it abuse, it gets accepted.

TonalBone

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Aren't the very photolithography machines that all the chip manufacturers use to make their chips all made by like one EU company or something?

Damage

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Yes, and that makes it even more ridicolous

Ashelyn

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Aren't there still massive issues with the Colorado River running dry? Hopefully they're not too dependant on that water source for their chips

Crashumbc

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Although the amount of water is shrinking. The main issue for the Colorado is abuse from agriculture. Something like 80% is being used for farming in the middle of the fucking desert. And even worse their growing shit like avocados and almonds that need a shit ton of water.

olympicyes

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And alfalfa for Saudi Arabia.

TechLauren

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I thought I read somewhere they are a year behind on ramping up actual real world production cuz of course shocker americans don't want to work 65 hours a week being abused the entire time. Cannot staff it as of this spring as far as I know. Drive past it all the time and never fails to strike me as a prime bomb target for the next enemy.