Due to insatiable demand for the world’s most advanced microchips, TSMC is on a hiring spree. Successfully surfing wave after wave of tech industry trends, the contract chipmaker aims to swell its ranks from 77,000 to 100,000 over the next few years, according to the company’s SVP of human resources, Laura Ho (via CNN).
TSMC employees have already rapidly grown in number from 56,000 at the end of 2020 to 77,000, according to the latest figures. To adapt, TSMC created a new dedicated training factory in Taichung, dubbed the Newcomer Training Center. The Center features 20 main machines and 12 measurement and ancillary machines for instructional purposes, delivering almost on-the-job training without risks to products. This new training process takes around eight weeks to deliver “a solid foundation.”
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With the difficulty of hiring and keeping the best staff, seeding will have to be scaled back somehow without removing the benefits it delivers—currently, every new fab needs Taiwanese engineers to get going at home or abroad. Meanwhile, the world has woken up to the importance of semiconductors, and qualified, experienced staff are highly sought after – with both companies and countries competing for such talent.
Source: https://www.tomshardware.com