Chang has been a throat slitter from the beginning. But the problem is lack of available engineers. TSMC even commented on that risk before breaking ground. They warned apple about it in 2018, even. This has been a know risk, and now there’s a fab that will be waiting for staff rather than the other way around like it normally is in Taiwan.
If the US was smart, they’d offer targeted VISA programs for industries that have historically exported engineers rather than importing them. But that’s a whole other incentive system with its own political issues.
Chang has been a throat slitter from the beginning. But the problem is lack of available engineers. TSMC even commented on that risk before breaking ground. They warned apple about it in 2018, even. This has been a know risk, and now there’s a fab that will be waiting for staff rather than the other way around like it normally is in Taiwan.
If the US was smart, they’d offer targeted VISA programs for industries that have historically exported engineers rather than importing them. But that’s a whole other incentive system with its own political issues.