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About the last line, I am surprised it is mentioned.

One would think that TSMC might have known about this small issue, before deciding to build a plant in the USA.

This is not their first plant in the US, and working >8 hour days is the norm for most engineers there.

Yes, I see now in your and others' comments that I had some false impressions about working conditions in american factories.

The working requirements in 24/7 manufacturing facilities is different than most 8-5 jobs. When you have $30B invested into a facility you have to maximize output and that means keeping all of the equipment up and running.

Downtime in one of these EUV fabs is going to cost in excess of ~$1m worth of product per hour. So yeah, you keep it staffed full of very talented maintenance technicians 24/7.

> Downtime in one of these EUV fabs is going to cost in excess of ~$1m worth of product per hour.

Looks like there is a lot of budget flexibility to properly pay their staff then.

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