The US government invested more than US$52 billion to subsidize semiconductor companies such as TSMC for research and development and manufacturing, but the founder Zhang Zhongmou estimated based on previous Oregon factory experience that such a subsidy amount is a drop in the bucket for TSMC to set up a factory in the United States. Not only should the infrastructure be manufactured in Taiwan and be sent to the United States for assembly, the cost of building a factory alone reaches US$3 billion, which is 6 times the cost of spending in Taiwan. In addition, local talents are needed, more IC design industries with higher salaries will flow into the IC design industry, and labor costs will also be a serious problem.
cranes and heavy machinery are entering. TSMC's 5-nanometer wafer factory in Arizona, USA, is in full swing. However, TSMC founder Zhang Zhongmou also took the Oregon factory that TSMC has been operating for 25 years as an example, pointing out the problem of lack of talent and high costs in setting up factories in the United States. TSMC founder Zhang Zhongmou said: "We actually have a factory in Oregon. The same product, Oregon, is about 50% higher than Taiwan."
TSMC founder Zhang Zhongmou said: "The United States has many IC design talents, but it lacks semiconductor manufacturing talents. The same product costs about 50% higher than Taiwan." He believes that the cost of Arizona factory will only be higher, because the United States lacks work and materials, and the infrastructure such as clean rooms in new factories are all manufactured in Taiwan. It takes 4,000 to 5,000 containers to be transported to the United States. Domestic transportation also needs to be through trucks and air hover trucks. Transport alone costs at least US$3 billion. Japanese media estimates that the cost of building a factory in Taiwan is 6 times higher than that in Taiwan. Liu Peizhen, a researcher at the industrial and economic database of the Institute of
, said: "Its cost will come from some related expenses for building a factory. The United States is originally a higher salary than Taiwan." How difficult it is to find talents. For example, graduates of the Electrical Department's salary department are like the artificial intelligence that the stock market relies on. If you go to Wall Street to work, the average annual salary will be US$112,000. When you go to Silicon Valley to engage in IC design, the annual salary is about US$81,000. However, the IC manufacturing industry belonging to TSMC has an annual salary of only about US$64,800. If you want to recruit talents locally, you may need more incentives.
Advisor Chai Huanxin, an Optoelectronics Association, said: "We have also heard that TSMC will also recruit young engineers from Taiwan (to a new factory), and then (give) in addition to the so-called salary, of course getting a green card is probably an important incentive to think." American semiconductor elites all go to IC designs. TSMC requires people to take them from Taiwan. The same position is 20% more expensive and they also need a green card. In addition, TSMC has been deeply rooted in Taiwan for many years, and has cooperated manufacturers to complete one-stop, compared to the United States, and the supply chain is incomplete. Whether upstream, midstream and downstream, all aspects of equipment and materials support have to be paid high costs. The US dollar subsidy provided by the United States is probably far from comparable to the investment amount required to promote localization of chip manufacturers.
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