Fascinating report on cultural clash between different communities of workers in TSMC’s new plant in Arizona. Neither group is portrayed in flattering light, but the main story is how hard it is be productive when very different working cultures are smashed together. Reminded me earlier attempt to do the same with
Foxconn in Wisconsin during the Trump era, which was featured in brainfood in 2020. One lesson of globalisation is that when industries are lost, they rarely come back and when they do, it is often in a form you didn’t expect.
Related news - TSMC will be (necessarily) charging more for chips built in this plant.