By: Gabriele Svelto (gabriele.svelto.delete@this.gmail.com), August 18, 2014 8:17 am
Room: Moderated Discussions
Purana Archer (ancientarcher.delete@this.gmail.com) on August 18, 2014 3:32 am wrote:
> 2) The biggest cost of R&D is cost of manpower. TSMC's engineers in Taiwan are far cheaper than those employed
> by Intel in the land of the free and home of the brave (or is the other way around, I forget)
This is not how things work: first of all both Intel and TSMC can (and do) hire people in a lot of different places and not just where they're incorporated. Second, if TSMC has an outstanding engineer or researcher and they're not paying him enough then there's nothing preventing Intel from hiring him with a higher salary and a paid relocation. Seriously, this is not manufacturing or some other sector where you rely exclusively on the local workforce; people move and companies regularly poach underpaid talents from others (and especially US companies).
> 2) The biggest cost of R&D is cost of manpower. TSMC's engineers in Taiwan are far cheaper than those employed
> by Intel in the land of the free and home of the brave (or is the other way around, I forget)
This is not how things work: first of all both Intel and TSMC can (and do) hire people in a lot of different places and not just where they're incorporated. Second, if TSMC has an outstanding engineer or researcher and they're not paying him enough then there's nothing preventing Intel from hiring him with a higher salary and a paid relocation. Seriously, this is not manufacturing or some other sector where you rely exclusively on the local workforce; people move and companies regularly poach underpaid talents from others (and especially US companies).