TSMC was pitted by the United States this time? US media: bad investment of US $40 billion

Last December, TSMC held a huge celebration at the launch ceremony of Fab21 in the Arizona factory.
Biden delivered a speech. U.S. Commerce Secretary Raymond and other politicians were all present, as well as AMD Chairman and CEO Su Zifeng, NVIDIA founder and CEO Huang Renxun, Apple CEO Cook, TSMC President Wei Zhejia and other leaders.
Everyone congratulated on the arrival of the first batch of machines and equipment from TSMC’s American wafer factory. Biden even said it was a great victory made in the United States
TSMC was pitted by the United States this time? US media: bad investment of US $40 billion
It can be said that the whole world is waiting for TSMC’s American factories to start up quickly and then produce chips. TSMC also plans to build a 3nm factory after the 5nm chip factory
However, it was only two months after the grand opening ceremony. Recently, it came out that TSMC might be ruined by the United States.
TSMC was pitted by the United States this time? US media: bad investment of US $40 billion
The reason is that after the construction of the Arizona factory, the progress of TSMC is very unsatisfactory. The key is that the cost in the United States is too high and the American workers are very difficult to manage.
First of all, in terms of cost, according to media reports, because of the impact of labor costs, licenses, compliance with regulations and inflation, the cost of TSMC’s factory construction in the United States is at least four times that of Taiwan.
Secondly, American workers are very difficult to manage. According to the trainer of TSMC’s Arizona factory, American workers are “very difficult to standardize” and cannot do well if they are assigned multiple tasks; Some even refuse to assign tasks and will not work hard to complete the assigned tasks. Without such awareness of sacrifice for the company, American workers can’t work overtime at all.
TSMC was pitted by the United States this time? US media: bad investment of US $40 billion
Some insiders said that for a chip factory, the most difficult thing is not the chip manufacturing technology itself, because now chip manufacturing is mechanized and automated, and there are few people involved. The most difficult thing is personnel management.
American workers do the worst in this respect, and American workers are the most difficult to manage. Therefore, in the future, when TSMC builds factories in the United States, it will encounter major problems in mass production of chips.
TSMC was pitted by the United States this time? US media: bad investment of US $40 billion
Because of this series of problems and difficulties, the New York Times of the United States directly said that this $40 billion investment case was a bad business decision and full of trials.
Previously, enterprises like Foxconn went to the United States to build factories, but they failed to succeed. Many of them could not go on until they were half built. So how far will TSMC be built this time, and will everything be as good as expected? Let’s wait and see.