As Big Tech lays off staff, TSMC swoops in to hire 6,000 https://www.theregister.com/2023/03/06/tsmc_hiring_engineers/

https://www.edn.com/tsmc-approaching-1-nm-with-2d-materials-breakthrough/

Hi All, I work for a "competitor" (any company barely competes :)). Anyone in tune with the hiring process for the AZ fab? My application statuses have changed, but I haven't heard anything over the past few weeks. I definitely have desirable... — read more 

TSMC will have ample capacity on 7nm, they are supporting Apple, Huawei, and many more on 7nm with volume exceeding Intel total starts. All those customers will migrate to 5nm leaving lots of opportunity to service Intel far cheaper than intel low... — read more 

TSMC has huge fab scale, cheaper labor, well characterized IP and accurate Spice Models and methods to support everything from cheap IoT to full field server and GPU.

If the market makes a turn soon, do you think there will be Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Layoffs in 2019?

Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing R&D group is small but really good - I would say one of the best, the company used to do much better but hey you have to be realistic and some issues will be found in every company and nobody is complaining even... — read more