[dehrmann]

I was recently chatting with someone in that industry but not at TSMC. It's that they assumed Taiwanese workplace, cultural, government, and business norms will work here. There's chip manufacturing in the US, so it's not that it can't work. It just won't be the same as Taiwan.

[throwaway2037]

You can re-write your exact same response but replace TSMC with Toyota. When Toyota started to build plants in 90s, people said much the same. In the beginning, yes, there were huge cultural gaps and major issues. Over time, they were fixed. I expect the same for TSMC.