When it comes to designing chips, the U.S. has some top companies headquartered in the states. Apple has become a chip powerhouse, a title certainly earned over the last few years. And of course, there is Qualcomm, based in San Diego, which draws up designs for many top chips under the Snapdragon line.
U.S. think tank says U.S. may need to poach employees from TSMC and Samsung Foundry to become self-sufficient
Many believe that the U.S. needs to develop its own foundries and TSMC is building one in Arizona that will churn out chips using the 5nm process node by 2024. However, by 2024 the most cutting-edge chips will be built using the 3nm node and we could be getting close to 2nm.
The think tank, CSET, says that the U.S. might have to import as many as 3,500 experienced workers. And to do that, it said, “Ideally, many of the 3,500-plus foreign workers will be current employees of leading logic chip makers such as TSMC and Samsung.”
TSMC and Samsung Foundry are no doubt unhappy with the prospect of losing key employees. The think tank suggests that the U.S. add new Visa routes to make it easier for workers in Taiwan and South Korea (where TSMC and Samsung are located, respectively) to gain entry to the United States.
