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TSMC’s chip fab in Arizona is running into massive culture shock.
Our pals at Rest of World have a deep dive into the TSMC chip fab in Arizona, one of the major plants funded by the Chips and Science Act. It was meant to come online this year, but it’s fallen well behind schedule, and culture shock is a major reason why:
Several American former employees said they felt relief after quitting. In group chats, engineers celebrated the departure of their friends. “TSMC was the worst possible place to work on Earth,” one American ex-TSMC engineer told Rest of World. Another, who recently left the company, described TSMC as having “a purely authoritarian work structure.”
Shades of Foxconn in Wisconsin, but at least this time there’s an actual factory.
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