(1) Mark Tyson, TSMC's Arizona Fab Hiring Woes Prompt Calls for Willing Taiwanese Migrants. tom's HARDWARE, Apr 21, 2022 https://www.tomshardware.com/news/tsmc-arizona-taiwanese-workers
("The TSMC factory work schedule is a mix of nights, days, 2-on and 2-off, 4-on and 3-off, and similar patterns. Accommodation, travel subsidies and so on will be provided")
, which is based on
洪友芳, 高中職畢就可!台積電徵美國廠技術員 但多益需逾800分. 自由時報, Apr 21, 2022 https://ec.ltn.com.tw/article/breakingnews/3900507
("錄取者在台期間,採4班2輪制,工作2天、休2天;派到美國期間,採4班3輪,工作4天、休息3天,或工作3天,休息4天交替,或2班2輪,工作2天、休息2天,視公司政策決定。在台期間依部門而異,3到5個月為夜班,3到5個月為日班,美國派任期間,半年夜班,半年日班 * * * 多益 [Test of English for International Communication (TOEIC)] 成績須達8百分以上")
(2) 洪友芳, 張忠謀:美國人力短缺 蓋晶圓廠徒勞無功. 自由時報, Apr 21, 2022 https://ec.ltn.com.tw/article/breakingnews/3900411
張忠謀週二(19日)指出,美國在1970和1980年代選擇了一條路,讓製造業人才為了從事高薪工作再受訓 [job retraining or worker retraining -- to do another job] * * * 張忠謀還強調,在美國製造的成本令人望而卻步。台積電奧勒岡州工廠的25年製造經驗足以明證,該廠能獲利,但幾乎放棄擴建計畫")
My comment: "台積電奧勒岡州工廠的25年製造經驗"
I have not heard of this before. But other Taiwanese news media says the same, so iut ius bot a typo *typographical error). But Google search suggests this is true.
(a) 台積公司在美國投資設立的專業積體電路製造服務公司 WaferTech開始動工興建. 台灣積體電路製造股份有限公司, July 12, 1996 (under the heading 新聞集錦) https://pr.tsmc.com/chinese/news/2442
(b) About WaferTech. WaferTech, undated https://www.wafertech.com/en/about/index.html
("Founded as a U.S. limited liability company in June 1996, WaferTech was the first dedicated semiconductor contract manufacturer, also known as a pure-play foundry, in the United States. WaferTech is located on 260 acres in Camas, Washington, 30 minutes outside of Portland, Oregon, in the Pacific Northwest’s Silicon Forest. The company’s 1-million-square-foot fabrication complex includes approximately 130,000 square feet of clean room space. WaferTech is proud to be a part of TSMC’s family of fabs which comprise the world’s largest dedicated semiconductor foundry operation and provides the industry’s leading process technology, library and IP options and other leading-edge foundry services, such as mask making and IC packaging and testing")
The slide show in this page contains one slide that says, "The First Dedicated Foundry in the US[:] Established in 1996, WaferTech is the only US fab that is part of the world-leading foundry, TSMC.