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Recently, TSMC has launched a large-scale recruitment of talents on LinkedIn with the location of Phoenix, Arizona, USA. It has offered many vacancies including AI/machine learning engineer, 3DIC packaging R&D engineer, factory electromechanical engineer , process integration engineer, manufacturing supervisor, IT architecture engineer, automation equipment software engineer, etc., and has launched the internship program "2021 DNA Internship Program", which is very active in preparing for the establishment of a factory in the United States.
TSMC announced in May 2020 that it will build and operate an advanced wafer factory in the United States. uses 5nm process technology and will invest about US$12 billion in a special project manner, with a planned monthly production capacity of 20,000 pieces. It is expected that construction will start in 2021 and mass production in 2024. This is TSMC's second production base in the United States.
Taipei originally had an 8-inch wafer factory in Camas, Washington, USA, and has design centers in Austin, Texas and San Hosey, California.
Because TSMC has a factory in the suburbs of Phoenix City, Arizona, USA, it is very close to the Intel factory area. The industry believes that TSMC's "intention to set up a big show in the United States" seems to be forced by political forces, but in fact, borrowing people to grab people in the United States is one of the key points, so Intel must be careful of the "talent database" being poached.
The news that TSMC intends to set up a factory in the United States has come out. Most of the industry believes that it is impossible to come true, because this does not conform to the principles of TSMC's centralized management and strict cost control. It is impossible to cost-effective to set up a factory in the United States.
Therefore, this "big drama of setting up a factory in the United States" has turned to the pressure of political forces from the beginning, and TSMC just had no choice but to cooperate. The plan to handle the project with a $12 billion project and a monthly production capacity of 20,000 pieces does seem to be an explanation for the United States and will not become TSMC's future focus.
In fact, TSMC is very smart and clearly sees that in order to maintain itself in the global technological research and development of semiconductor industry, the number of graduates from Taiwan's science and engineering related science and engineering is absolutely insufficient every year, and it is necessary to break through the bottleneck.
The problem of insufficient number of talents in the semiconductor industry is everywhere, and it has even become the most fatal problem that hinders the progress of the industry.
TSMC went to the United States to set up a factory with 20,000 pieces to express sincerity, which can be exchanged for a large number of talents, resources, strong innovation and R&D energy from the high-tech industry in the United States, and it can also talk about good subsidy conditions. Especially in the international situation this year, TSMC can indeed use a "passive attitude" in exchange for the United States to propose better subsidies, which is indeed a big trick.
In addition to absorbing the energy of high-tech talents and innovative R&D from the United States, TSMC went to the United States to set up a factory in a sense, and it also made customers feel at ease and the United States feel at ease.
In the past four years of the Trump administration, Sino-US frictions have almost been close to the "Cold War". The high-tech industry is the most critical bargaining chip in the hands of the United States. It keeps playing cards. TSMC is the world's most important chip manufacturing factory, so it will naturally be targeted.
Under such a general environment, the United States will of course hope that TSMC can have a wafer factory in the United States, which can also be interpreted as a defense consideration. Moreover, TSMC already has a 20,000-piece 12-inch factory in Nanjing. As a global professional wafer foundry, to put both bowls of water flat, you must put some in order to smooth the water.
TSMC Chairman Liu Deyin also explained before that he would choose Arizona to set up a factory because the cost of living in the West Coast is not small. Arizona is a place that many young people are willing to go, and for semiconductor factories, hydropower resources are very important. Arizona has abundant water resources, and the electricity price is not only very cheap, but it is all green electricity and the land is also very large.
Furthermore, TSMC also pointed out that American factories can provide better services to customers and partners and provide an opportunity to attract global talents, because the United States is a dynamic and competitive ecosystem.
In addition, TSMC's American factory has also finalized that the factory construction and operation will be carried out by Lin Tinghuang, director of Zhongke Factory 15A, and Wu Yihuang, senior director of the Technology Department. At present, the review and cooperation with TSMC's suppliers in the United States have been carried out to set up factories.
