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Apple Supplier TSMC Delays Production of 4nm Chips at Arizona Factory Due to Skilled Worker Shortage
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Apple can't win with some people
consumer: "i want Apple to support unions!"
also consumer: "i want Apple to stop taking advantage of kids in China"
also consumer: "i want Apple to pay employees more!"
also consumer: "i want Apple to give me more free iCloud storage!"
also consumer: "i want Apple to include the charging brick!"
and then consumer goes: "why are prices increasing???"
i'm surprised tim cook puts up with all of these complaints. i would have left the job years ago.
exactly. This is not a simple problem, its far far more complicated. even when I ran my own small company with 5 employees it wasnt just "wages". Sooooooooo many other factors.
remember that this is TSMCs first factory outside Taiwan, they went in with a specific cost model. Covid happened and now every government is pouring $$ into semiconductor. pay rates have gone up significantly in that sector. Intel is facing the same labor issue for their new plants in Ohio, guess how they manage that? they are going to relocate some of their AZ workforce and will pay $$.
Yes, if TSMC were going to offer super competitive $$ in AZ, I think they would get all the people they need, but, that is not in their culture ...
Tim Cook earned $100 million last year, and $100 million the year before. Spare me the sob story.
There's a name for that. It's a form of discrimination. What makes North America better than other regions? Tell us.
It's not that they don't want to work. They don't want to earn what they expect to receive for that work. For example... holiday pay, sick pay, overtime pay ... while they are lazy and slow during their regular work hours. The problem is with attitude and entitlement.
Self-employed people know what I'm talking about. Running a small business requires long hours, hard work, and nobody is paying you benefits or overtime. Your reward is received when the challenges are conquered and there's more revenue than expenses.
lol damn, can’t imagine why your employees don’t wanna work for you
North America has better clouds. Also, the wild animals look better.
I'm not going to spare you the math: 100m / 164k employees = $609 dollars per person per year.
I'm sure Apple would gladly give $609 to each employee per year if it shuts everyone up about those complaints. 🤣
Apple doesn't currently have any products using 3nm do they? Just rumors talking about poor yields, accumulating whats produced, and guessing when they will arrive.
are you telling me a degree in Gender Studies is not going to help in this situation?
I can't give you a hard number, but I can definitely give you a number of "more than it is now, 'cause clearly whatever it is now ain't workin'."
This is the effect of universities doing everything but teaching. Millions of graduates without any knowledge.
Why so emotional? That’s not how companies work nor run. Be it in the us, India or china.
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Because 3nm yields are bad at this point and mostly reserved for the very high-end/enthusiast segment.
If they didn’t require them to move overseas for many months for training, and would adopt an American mangement style, they’d probably be better able to recruit us engineers.
America is very behind, but let’s be clear, companies don’t want to pay what the work is worth. This “skilled labor” line has been running for well over a decade and instead it should be read as “we can’t find enough high skilled workers willing to work for below market rate”.
Just installing and firing up this equipment is a highly, highly delicate process. It takes months, and even things like the floor not being level to 0.001” can result millions of dollars of unusable chips.
Chip factories are no joke, and neither is the paycheck that’s supposed to come with being responsible for installing, testing, running, and maintaining it.
With unemployment at its lowest ever? If there’s all these skilled workers sitting around, what do you think the problem is?
Nope, its a manufacturing job, not an executive job. If you’re compensated for the product of your labor, you are livestock to be commoditized and traded. If you skim off the top of all the other suckers doing the work, that’s the real value, now you’re in the money. Why can’t we find enough cattle that educated themselves at exorbitant personal cost & at interest, and who someone else trained to do the work, so we can invest nothing and rake in the profit? The darn cattle are so lazy and unappreciative of our generosity these days.