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At the same time, Chang pointed to an apparent comparative lack of talent in Americas mostly moribund manufacturing sector.
The United States stood out for cheap land and electricity when TSMC looked for an overseas site but we had to try hard to scout out competent technicians and workers in Arizona because manufacturing jobs have not been popular among American people for decades, Chang said, according to a transcript of his speech viewed by Asia Times.
Chang also warned about sending Taiwanese managers overseas to run plants.
Computers of different brands can often be hooked together but not people of different culture, he said, referring to the preponderance of Taiwanese and Taiwan-trained managers and technicians at TSMC.
The fact that TSMCs top-flight executives can deliver top results in Taiwan is no guarantee of similar performance when they are posted overseas. Only one Westerner sits on the companys 26-member board.
Taiwans state-of-the-art infrastructure helps to rev up TSMCs operations and time-to-design and time-to-market capacities, he said. Chang said the islands efficient and well-developed high-speed rail network and cobweb of expressways provided the vital circuitry for TSMCs research and manufacturing between its headquarters in Hsinchu, near Taipei, and other plants across Taichung and Tainan.
https://asiatimes.com/2021/04/tsmc-founder-doubts-us-competence-in-chip-making/
joetheman
(1,450 posts)Klaralven
(7,510 posts)krawhitham
(4,634 posts)Demsrule86
(68,355 posts)cheap labor- forced labor in some cases. Well, we need to make our own stuff. IMHO, it is a national security issue. As for our manufacturing sector...if it doesn't come back, we are finished that is where the profit is not retail.
keithbvadu2
(36,371 posts)Folks have long said the US is becoming a service economy.
Your point is spot on for the manufacturing.
Think of the super deal on chip making in Wisconsin that has mostly fizzled out.
Trump and the guv bragged mightily about it.
They seem rather low key now.
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