> TSMC is known for overpaying
Never heard that in my life. Underpay sure.
They're kind of notorious for have overqualified workers. PhDs left monitoring assembly lines or writing accounting software
My bad - didn't see the qualifier for Taiwan there.
Yea, TSMC pay is decent by Taiwan standards, but imo that's largely because Taiwan salaries are fairly low even compared to other East Asian nations when factoring CoL.
No doubt keeping costs low helped them get to that stage. Still that's a crazy margin. I imagine much of it's re-invested.
IMHO, Intel could've kept up but dropped the ball pretty hard. The volume of ARM / cell phone cpus caught them off guard and huge amounts of revunue let TSMC drive forward.
There's going to be a bunch of people wanting any job [1] and more in the coming years. So they'd probably cheer a local walmart as much as a local tsmc.