My friends working in fabrication - experienced, competent engineers with years of work history in Intel and Micron factories - got laughably insultingly low offers from TSMC. Like, 50k, no PTO, weak or no benefits. They literally laughed the offers away and got cushy software jobs with minimal retraining.
This was a few years back, maybe TSMC realized you can't pay Taiwan rates in the US.
I've learned not to trust articles' accuracy on aspects not corporations that are difficult to verify in public data.
Once I was reading an article saying the company I worked for didn't operate its own datacenters... while I was setting up new hardware in one of our several datacenters.
This was a few years back, maybe TSMC realized you can't pay Taiwan rates in the US.