TSMC’s Arizona Culture Clash

Re:TSMC’s Arizona Culture Clash by sitkack on Wednesday January 05, 2022 @11:08AM (#29810721)

Any company that runs down worker resources by running them out of spec is not sustainable and indicative of a lack of mature management. You wouldn't run your physical machinery outside of its operating area, so don't do it to your workforce. Automate. Fabs are the knife edge of technology, literally building the components that go into all other forms of automation, yet they are reliant on primate and medieval era organizational structures and processes?

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Re:TSMC’s Arizona Culture Clash by deanCommie on Wednesday January 05, 2022 @02:02PM (#29813364)

Yes...with a lot of asterixes.

Ask anyone who worked in retail for a long time. When they replaced the point of sale and catalog search systems in the early 2000's, everyone's productivity plummeted.

They replaced old, DOS/Norton-style keyboard-only systems with a legion of shortcuts and archaic codes with Web-based touch-screen or mouse-based UIs with modern UX etc.

The new technology was obviously more modern and allowed faster training, and it's hard to imagine any world where that upgrade doesn't happen. But the old system was faster, and allowed experienced users to do more.

Now, if you're talking about a Blockbuster Video, maybe it's the right choice.

But if you're talking about extremely specialized semiconductor manufacturing, maybe you stick with the highly optimized system that works. Some things changed a lot since 1987. Others haven't.

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Re:TSMC’s Arizona Culture Clash by sitkack on Thursday January 06, 2022 @02:04AM (#29820326)

I appreciate the sentiment, but we are talking about different things. My comment was directed entirely at how hard some companies push their workforce, not what era the technology is from.

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Re:TSMC’s Arizona Culture Clash by deanCommie on Thursday January 06, 2022 @02:14PM (#29828417)

Understood, my mistake.

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