Oh ok so we aren't being slaves enough is what they're saying
this post was submitted on 17 Aug 2023
278 points (91.9% liked)
Technology
58303 readers
66 users here now
This is a most excellent place for technology news and articles.
Our Rules
- Follow the lemmy.world rules.
- Only tech related content.
- Be excellent to each another!
- Mod approved content bots can post up to 10 articles per day.
- Threads asking for personal tech support may be deleted.
- Politics threads may be removed.
- No memes allowed as posts, OK to post as comments.
- Only approved bots from the list below, to ask if your bot can be added please contact us.
- Check for duplicates before posting, duplicates may be removed
Approved Bots
founded 1 year ago
MODERATORS
I mean FABs are very complex. If they're going to try to give the role to the uneducated poor folk (looking at you south USA), it's going to require extreme leadership conditions :(
No, it's going to require extreme salaries, because there are so many options for the qualified people in the Phoenix area. TSMC's reputation precedes them and people would rather work at Intel or NXP or ONsemi or anywhere else for less money, than to work for them
Again, "qualified" is not their target demo for workers lol
Outrage bait.
You guys do know the affordability of the chips you're using to comment on this is a direct consequence of TSMC "efficiency", right?
TSMC doesn’t make everything.
There are morally abhorrent chip manufacturers in South Korea and Japan as well.
And?
The manufacturing cost of the SoC in my phone is not at all at the top of the bill of materials. You could double the price of the SoC (or reduce TSMC manufacturing efficiency in half) and the price would go up by $50-80 at most. And I'm talking about top of the line SoCs like the Apple Bionic and Snapdragon 8 series. There won't be a significant market disruption if this happened. There's already an estimate of the increased cost of production in the US and it lies around 50% over the Taiwanese cost, so it's not even close to the above. That's $25-40 per top of the line phone extra.
load more comments
(1 replies)
Here is an alternative Piped link(s): https://piped.video/k_zz3239DA0
Piped is a privacy-respecting open-source alternative frontend to YouTube.
I'm open-source, check me out at GitHub.
The comment in this thread are a good summary of why TSMC has concerns. I fully support workers rights of course. But from TSMC's perspective, WHY would they want to put up with all our 'crap' when they can continue operating in Taiwan with their standard practices?
Fair point however I would rather have chip dependance than exploitation
Because we have them money to do it.
load more comments
(7 replies)