Re:Samsung boosts non-memory chip investment to $151B
by inglor_cz on Sunday May 16, 2021 @06:47AM
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I wonder what the situation looks like today. Probably better, because losing senior engineers in a situation when the field has shrunk to Samsung, TSMC and Intel, would be a huge pain.
Re:Samsung boosts non-memory chip investment to $151B
by baybal2 on Sunday May 16, 2021 @06:48AM
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TSMC's salaries have doubled, but that only means that an engineer with 5-7 years experience gets $43k-$58k.
The rest of the industry is still around $34k-$45k
That lags behind the wage growth in the rest of Taiwan.
Re:Samsung boosts non-memory chip investment to $151B
by headmelted on Sunday May 16, 2021 @07:57AM
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Not challenging this but do you have a link?
If that’s the case that’s really surprising given how significant TSMC is to Taiwan politically.
Re:Samsung boosts non-memory chip investment to $151B
by baybal2 on Sunday May 16, 2021 @09:15AM
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For 12-10 year old ones, my own contacts. For what's recent more from local chit chat.
Re:Samsung boosts non-memory chip investment to $151B
by logicchains on Sunday May 16, 2021 @10:02AM
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The mainland is taking advantage of this to get skilled engineers, as mainland Chinese tech salaries are closer to those in the US. So much so that Taiwan has banned recruiting for mainland jobs: https://asia.nikkei.com/Business/Tech/Semiconductors/Taiwan-...
Semiconductor engineers salaries in Taiwan could've been as low as $26k-$28k USD back in 2007-2009. Multi-year long PhD "interships" can be unpaid, or completely minimally so.
A chance for an average semi process engineer graduate to survive to doing real RnD was close to 80-100 to 1.