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It would be "impossible" to move 40% of Taiwan's semiconductor capacity to the U.S., the island's top tariff negotiator said, pushing back against recent comments by American officials who called for a major production shift.

In an interview with Taiwanese television channel CTS that was broadcast late on Sunday, Taiwan Vice Premier Cheng Li-chiun said she had made it clear to Washington that Taiwan's semiconductor ecosystem, built up over decades, could not be relocated.

"I have made it very clear to the United States that this is impossible," she said, referring to the 40% goal the U.S. has floated.

That ecosystem will continue to grow in Taiwan, Cheng said, adding that the semiconductor industry would keep investing at home.

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[–] mereo@piefed.ca 2 points 18 hours ago (4 children)

Even Tim Cook mentionned it, the US doesn't have the amount of engineers it needs to move production to the US, it's simply impossible.

[–] Buelldozer@lemmy.today 6 points 14 hours ago* (last edited 14 hours ago)

the US doesn’t have the amount of engineers it needs to move production to the US

Tim Cook can eat a bag of rancid donkey dicks. The reason we 'don't have enough engineers', a point which I would emphatically argue, is because CEOs like Tim and companies like Apple vehemently refused to invest in domestic capabilities as they rushed to save money via Chinese outsourcing.

If we want "Tooling" Engineers, or any other specialty such as "Process Control", the answer is as always to pay them what they are worth and that's the rub; Timmie and his buddies don't want to pay the high salaries for these skills.

...it’s simply impossible.

It's no more impossible than having enough world class software engineers. The United States in general, and Silicon Valley in particular, used to be the world leader in developing and attracting Engineering talent and the only reason we aren't anymore is because companies don't want to pay for it.

[–] Biffsbraincell@lemmy.zip 2 points 14 hours ago

Well foreign engineers could come here, I'm sure they would feel very safe and welcome...

[–] wonderingwanderer@sopuli.xyz 1 points 12 hours ago

Guess that's on them for pricing people out of higher education...

[–] dogslayeggs@lemmy.world 1 points 12 hours ago

No, it's that companies aren't willing to pay the salaries of engineers in the US. The US pumps out thousands of fresh engineers every year, but the starting salary of a new engineer in the US is $110k while the starting salary of new engineer in the UK is around $33k. In France it is closer to $75k.

And this isn't isolated to engineering, either. In the TV industry, they are finding it is cheaper to fly game show contestants to London to shoot a 30 min game show than it is to shoot it in the US.