By Audrey Jensen | Phoenix Business Journal
TSMC (Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Co.) has hired more than 2,000 employees for its new Arizona campus, while more than 600 employees hired in the U.S. have completed months-long training in Taiwan, the company told the Business Journal. This includes hundreds of employees and their families who have relocated from Taiwan to help start operations at TSMC’s new Phoenix campus.
Although ASU produces a lot of engineers — it is the largest engineering school in the U.S. with a student enrollment of 30,000 last fall — TSMC will need more than what the school is producing and will be looking to hire employees globally, Laura Franco French, director of state government relations for TSMC in Arizona, told Maricopa Association of Governments committee members during a meeting in February.
“We’ll need the top talent in the world,” she said. “Because this technology is not happening here, we had to bring several employees from Taiwan to stand up this fab, so we have the added benefit of a large Taiwanese population who has come here.”
Many workers who were reassigned from Taiwan will only stay for three to four years to ramp up operations, French said, but some may live in Arizona permanently and raise their family in the U.S., adding to the growing multiculturalism in Phoenix.
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