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Re:China hires over 100 TSMC engineers in push for chip lead... by vsskanth on Wednesday August 12, 2020 @09:38AM (#24131946)
> Where the money come from ?

Wherever the CEO and chairman's $10m annual package came from. You either pay market rate or risk your employees leaving.

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Re:China hires over 100 TSMC engineers in push for chip lead... by mensetmanusman on Wednesday August 12, 2020 @03:58PM (#24136164)
It’s not market rate, it’s geopolitical theater rate. These are rare situations
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Re:China hires over 100 TSMC engineers in push for chip lead... by vsskanth on Wednesday August 12, 2020 @05:31PM (#24137238)
It might be rare, but right now those engineers are super valuable, and are getting paid for it.

demand and supply.

you see the same thing happen with self driving engineers commanding million dollar packages because they were in such high demand and supply was so low.

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Re:China hires over 100 TSMC engineers in push for chip lead... by coreblocks on Thursday August 13, 2020 @10:27AM (#24143658)
They are super valuable now but their value will decrease as the Chinese semiconductor industry catches up, so it's not like TSMC will have to pay 2x the salary forever. However I know many people (not at TSMC) who would take a lower salary to work on green field projects.
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Re:China hires over 100 TSMC engineers in push for chip lead... by matz1 on Wednesday August 12, 2020 @09:49AM (#24132050)
Are you suggesting to move some of the CEO allocation to the engineer ? Wouldn't that cause new issue of retaining CEO ?
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Re:China hires over 100 TSMC engineers in push for chip lead... by emteycz on Wednesday August 12, 2020 @09:54AM (#24132080)
What we're discussing is that it's hard for a company to pay the market rate when the competition is the CCP itself. The CCP would pay the equivalent of $20 million if it needed to - and what then?
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