TSMC’s Turning Point

For starters, unlike at many American companies, engineers at TSMC work in shift patterns and overtime is quite common. “That’s why TSMC can operate 24 hours a day without any temporary equipment shutdown,” says Lucy Chen, vice president at Isaiah Research.

And Chen, at Isaiah Research, notes that TSMC is having an easier time recruiting Taiwanese engineers to work in its new Japanese plant than its Arizona one, in part because of “culture adaptability.”