TSMC began hiring more workers for the Arizona plant: Report

According to the latest reports, TSMC will build a chip factory in Arizona in the United States. Construction will begin next year. TSMC is also preparing to dispatch and recruit related personnel for the operation of this factory. personnel.

Judging from reports, the news that TSMC will dispatch and recruit staff to the US factory was revealed by TSMC Chairman Liu Deyin in an interview. Liu Deyin said in the interview that they will send more than 300 employees to assist the Arizona factory to start operations, and will recruit another 300 graduates and engineers with many years of work experience.

According to reports, the 300 employees dispatched to the Arizona factory will receive a year of full English training so that they can work in the Arizona factory.

TSMC will dispatch employees to the Arizona plant and newly recruited employees, mainly engineers in chip R&D and manufacturing, including R&D engineers, process engineers, equipment engineers, and IT software engineers for positions required for plant operations.

TSMC’s plan to build a factory in the United States was announced on May 15 this year. It plans to start construction in 2021. The goal is to put it into operation in 2024. TSMC plans to invest 12 billion US dollars in this factory from 2021 to 2029. The 5nm process is used for related customer foundry chips, and the planned monthly production capacity is 20,000 wafers.

However, the 600 employees currently planned by TSMC is expected to be only the initial number of employees. When announcing the factory plan at that time, TSMC stated that the factory would directly create 1,600 high-tech jobs and indirectly create thousands of other jobs in the semiconductor field.

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