That could be it, but I believe that the skilled people they are looking for are already retired and the new generation is unfit/unqualified because they've wasted their time with gender studies.
Yes. The pool of people with those skills are already working in a job at the few remaining foundries and aren't going to leave for sub-par wages.
The only other foundry I can think of in recent memory was the WE/ATT/Lucent plants, and those are so long gone those people are dead or retired.
TSMC is most likely unwilling to train people, so they just complain instead. They want 110% immediately and they can't get it because it doesn't exist.
That's probably true. In the 90s I worked for a company that made a specialized pump used in semiconductor fabs. I traveled to most of the US, South Korea, and Italian fabs installing and training maintenance techs. I was in my 40s then, and most of the techs I dealt with were about the same age or just a little younger.
jew-run corporations (mostly owned by Vanguard/BlackRock) killed plenty of industries in White countries by delocalizing to Asia so they could get more shekels.
Even some of the S. Korean companies in the 90s were building the 'newest' tech fabs in China, or outsourcing to them.
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