By offering to 3x their salary if they stay. If these engineers possess valuable knowledge they should be paid what they're worth.
It's an open market. TSMC is not a military organization to stop them from working for another country.
It's an open market. TSMC is not a military organization to stop them from working for another country.
On the other hand TSMC is a publicly traded company. There's a limit to what expenses they can justify in front of the shareholders. China can lure engineers away with 3x the salary probably because that was the limit TSMC settled on, not because that's the limit of what China is willing to pay.
If I go into a supermarket and the bananas are too expensive then I can either pay or not eat a banana. If salaries are increasing companies can either pay market rate or no.
(They can also train internally but that doesn't seem fashionable nowadays)
A nation state devoting their trillions to outbid companies is the exact opposite of capitalist dogma. (Even less capitalist than a monopolist conglomerate abusing their dominant market position to outbid/undercut you.)
Wherever the CEO and chairman's $10m annual package came from. You either pay market rate or risk your employees leaving.
demand and supply.
you see the same thing happen with self driving engineers commanding million dollar packages because they were in such high demand and supply was so low.