The fact that only japan is deemed having a good enough work culture to host tsmc factories makes me very pessimistic about the future of chip making in europe..

Random thing I never thought about: Taiwan and the southern part of the Japanese archipelago are really close to the boundary between the Philippine/Eurasian plates, and I wonder how they go about insulating fabs from seismic noise

In Arizona they’d presumably compete with Intel for labor. Do they have any competition in this particular part of Japan?

https://archive.md/YC4w1