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chmaynard
Maybe they should have thought about this possibility and started a training program BEFORE they built the fab? Just a crazy idea.
dharmab
Anecdote- most of my skilled friends working in chip fabs jumped over to software jobs a few tears ago. Software pays better for easier and significantly less hazardous work.
gloryjulio
+1 to that. Also TSMC pay is not that good in Taiwan anyway. That's how China was successful in poaching previously. You can't compare the warchests
icedistilled
this is actually a huge issue with a lot of important jobs in america - they aren't valued commensurate to the work and value.

So many fields that require high skills and a lot of education pay far too little compared to software/analytics. One works just as hard but the pay is not comparable - it doesn't make economic sense to do a lot of the non-software jobs.

Arrath
I would have thought the buildout of the facility would take long enough for TSMC to set up and begin a comprehensive training pipeline for workers, but apparently not.