Talking about transport. In US, if the plant employed 1,000 employees, the
plant will have to provide 1,000 car park lots.

This is because every employee drives their own car. The plant will also
have to provide more car lots for other users.

Some 200 car lots have to be provided as spare car lots for visitors and
suppliers, and for unforeseen needs such as ambulance, fire engines, and
media.

This means the land space will have to be doubled to meet the mammoth space
for car parking needs. The gas pollution can impact the air quality in the
plant.

In Taiwan, maybe only 20 per cent of 1,000 may need car to travel to work.
The rest can take trains, buses, and motorcycles, too

"ltlee1" wrote in message
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""At a forum hosted by Taiwanese media outlets, Chang hailed the workhorse
mentality of the Taiwanese working class, as well as the island’s deep pool
of high-caliber, industrious talent devoted to the chip sector.

At the same time, Chang pointed to an apparent comparative lack of talent in
America’s mostly moribund manufacturing sector.

“The United States stood out for cheap land and electricity when TSMC looked
for an overseas site but we had to try hard to scout out competent
technicians and workers in Arizona because manufacturing jobs have not been
popular among American people for decades,” Chang said, according to a
transcript of his speech viewed by Asia Times.

Chang also warned about sending Taiwanese managers overseas to run plants.

“Computers of different brands can often be hooked together but not people
of different culture,” he said, referring to the preponderance of Taiwanese
and Taiwan-trained managers and technicians at TSMC.

“The fact that TSMC’s top-flight executives can deliver top results in
Taiwan is no guarantee of similar performance when they are posted
overseas.” Only one Westerner sits on the company’s 26-member board.

Taiwan’s state-of-the-art infrastructure helps to rev up TSMC’s operations
and time-to-design and time-to-market capacities, he said.

Chang said the island’s efficient and well-developed high-speed rail network
and cobweb of expressways provided the vital “circuitry” for TSMC’s research
and manufacturing between its headquarters in Hsinchu, near Taipei, and
other plants across Taichung and Tainan.

“It was a breeze for us to rotate technicians and staff among the three fabs
across the island and when employees change over from one location to
another, they even do not need to move their homes thanks to Taiwan’s bullet
trains and highways and well-rounded transport and logistical support,” said
Chang.

“It’s unlikely we can replicate all these in Arizona.” "

https://asiatimes.com/2021/04/tsmc-founder-doubts-us-competence-in-chip-making/

America has the touch of King Midas. It, however, is short on talents,
infrastructure, and culture.