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After TSMC construction began Fab 21 Near Phoenix, Arizona, the company said it needed to Sending more than 1,000 skilled workers from Taiwan So you can complete the project on time and within budget. This made Arizona unions are angryThey also claimed that she essentially took positions from local residents, and the situation led to a separate lawsuit for racial discrimination. Today, about 50% of employees at the plant are still from Taiwan, but that will change over time as TSMC builds additional phases of its plant, according to reports. New York Times.
About half of the 2,200 employees at TSMC’s Fab 21 in Arizona come from Taiwan. When announcing the project in 2020, TSMC assured the public that it would create jobs for locals, so bringing in more than 1,000 employees from Taiwan ran counter to the foundry’s promise to hire talent from Arizona, which naturally angered unions.
TSMC reportedly had too Work policies Which conflicted with those in the United States over time, it turns out TSMC called on employees to work long hourswhich is not common in the United States over time, TSMC has become so Accused of favoring Taiwanese employees For promotion in the lawsuit.
However, TSMC expects the share of US workers to grow as it builds additional phases of its Fab 21 plant over the next five years. This will likely happen as current employees at TSMC learn more about the company’s operations and get promoted while others are hired. The three-phase project is expected to create about 6,000 well-paying jobs.
What remains to be seen is who will prepare these later Fab 21 stages: Existing site employees or new employees from Taiwan. The second phase of TSMC’s Fab 21 will focus on producing chips using N3 (3 nm class) process technologies. In turn, the third phase of Fab 21 will add N2 (2nm class) and A16 (1.6nm class) technologies and their versions with back-end power delivery, performance improvements and transistor density to the site.
However, N3, N2 and A16 use slightly different tooling than the N4 and N5 production nodes used in the first phase of Fab 21. As a result, TSMC may be tempted to bring in more workers from Taiwan to install these tools and assist in the manufacturing process. , where they will have a unique experience that people in the United States will not have.
