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The title is a misnomer because it should read a “Little Hsinchu” and not a “Tiny Taipei”.
"How TSMC’s Arizona Chip Plant Seeded a Tiny Taipei in the Desert: Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Company, a global tech giant, brought thousands of workers from Asia to the Phoenix suburbs for jobs at a plant that the Biden administration helped fund"
I would think we want a Hsinchu in the US. I would love for the area around TSMC’s AZ fab to receive a census designated name of New Hsinchu, AZ and for the freeways next to the fabs to be named after Morris Chang (Morris Chang Fwy, etc). It wouldn’t hurt to have a CC Wei High School and a Mark Liu Middle School either.
"Other women said finding work was hard when they spoke limited English and did not have the necessary visas. Instead, several have started their own businesses from home, selling meals and crafts, styling hair or doing nails."
There may have been some miscommunication or misunderstanding on the part of the New York Times reporters. For TSMC employees who are non-US residents or citizens working in the US, they typically use E1, E2, or H1 visas. Their spouses are legally allowed to work or start businesses in the US under US laws.
Phoenix has a long ways to go to be Eastern Friendly. The closest Asian markets are all in South Phoenix. They get their first DTF this coming year says it all. The restaurant they profiled is in a dump strip mall without even a menu. They must be popular because the day we went half the things we tried to order were out. Most of the guest there were ganster types, suspect the install team and not TSMC employees.
"Other women said finding work was hard when they spoke limited English and did not have the necessary visas. Instead, several have started their own businesses from home, selling meals and crafts, styling hair or doing nails."
There may have been some miscommunication or misunderstanding on the part of the New York Times reporters. For TSMC employees who are non-US residents or citizens working in the US, they typically use E1, E2, or H1 visas. Their spouses are legally allowed to work or start businesses in the US under US laws.
If they got kids will be hard to work as unlike Taiwan their is family to watch the kids, spouses are at work till after dinner making working couple a challenge
Phoenix is definitely going to change but let's hope it is nothing like Hsinchu.
