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American fabs have focused on too many feel good measures to competitively compete with the Asian fabs. The new TSMC Arizona HR director came from Intel and one of the first questions out of his mouth was about TSMC's commitment to diversity. TSMC doesn't have a commitment to diversity...it has a commitment to hire the best and brightest to bring value to their end customers.

Pure and simple that is how you succeed.

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>TSMC Arizona HR director came from Intel

That whole Intel diversity programme came from BK. And look at what it has done to Intel in that 4 years.

By all means, hire every diverse candidate you can if they’re the best and the brightest. Diversity and inclusion is a sure fire way to hire mediocre people. Every culture and every race has some brilliant folks. Hire them.

Exactly. In some cases getting a diverse background of opinions and viewpoints can make your company better. Like a clothing company or social media company. However when you are talking about advancing technology through modifying physics and scaling up systems then you simply need the best and brightest.

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