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gpapilion | 1 year ago

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Fab + design... its apples to oranges.

TSMC for example has 77k employees and looking to add 23k more.

Packaging and testing are labor intensive, and require folks to be added in different geographies.

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dlcarrier|1 year ago

GlobalFoundries: 12k employees

SMIC: 20k employees

UMC: 20k employees

TSMC only has that many employees because they have a nearly 2/3rd market share of all ASIC production.