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A comment on Ask HN: Why does the west, especially USA, not clone TSMC?.

Re:Ask HN: Why does the west, especially USA, not clone TSMC? by simonblack on Tuesday October 05, 2021 @04:32AM (#28756782)
Cost and lack of skilled workers. Fabs cost billions to build, then you need to have lots of guys working there who have lots of knowledge and experience.

The difficult part about bringing manufacturing back to the US is not the cost of rebuilding the factories but the loss of all those skilled workers over the last 30 years who have retired, died, or been retrained, or just plain old forgotten what they once knew.

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Re:Ask HN: Why does the west, especially USA, not clone TSMC? by hidden-spyder on Tuesday October 05, 2021 @01:13PM (#28762323)
How many people are even needed? Is it not possible to teach enough people in a decade? It's not like the knowledge is lost.
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Re:Ask HN: Why does the west, especially USA, not clone TSMC? by simonblack on Tuesday October 05, 2021 @07:02PM (#28766839)
It's not knowledge per se, it's the personal experience and skills of the workers.

Like the old joke about the blacksmith's invoice and the hammer.

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