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Lots of comments on the original Fortune piece on Reddit.
Are the engineers considered "labor" in this context? That might explain some of the comments by engineers on the Reddit board.
Observing from the distance from multiple points in the ecosystem, and making some broad generalizations: It sure seemed like Intel was tweaking every aspect of their process(es) and design flow to get what the design groups insisted was necessary for future processor generations, while TSMC was...
I'm sure a lot of folks read this post like me, and remembered dozens (hundreds?) of meetings attended over the years, where a bunch of PhDs debated the relative merits of some tiny little detail of semi design, verification, fabrication, test, etc. Not because the meeting was unnecessary, but...