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@stefanlaser@social.tchncs.de
2025-12-08 04:02:38

Epic insights on the #semiconductor industry in #Taiwan. We’re on the second day of our workshop, with a heavy focus on walks.
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The industry came to the island in the freaking 1950s. Here’s a precious IBM machine, infamously transported by horse car 🐎 because trucks were to shaky…

Images of a horse care transporting a vacuum tube computer 💻 in 1963
We are visiting a clean room, and they etched a little chip for us as gift. Here's a pic of the precious red piece
@stefanlaser@social.tchncs.de
2025-12-08 06:33:21

Taboo in the clean room: workers in #semiconductor fabs, e.g. TSMC in #Taiwan, face high mental pressure. They cannot eat pizza – it’s too similar to the form of an IC waver. 😬
I will continue dropping these insights, here from clinical psychology. Unions are banned, btw., so better med…

A packed PowerPoint slide with multiple stressors in a clean room. The taboo of eating pizza is a colourful example of serious matters
@stefanlaser@social.tchncs.de
2025-12-09 09:29:21

Migrant workers in #Taiwan are mostly from Southeast Asia, the #semiconductor industry esp. pulls from the #Philippines. Entire neighborhoods cater to

Don't to part time. A colorful poster warning of fines incl. imprisonment
@stefanlaser@social.tchncs.de
2025-12-06 08:42:02

Back in #Taiwan, ready for a cracker tour through the wee #semiconductor industry with our interational “Silicon Urbanism” research group.
From clean rooms to water streams, we’ll do it all

A construction puppet directing pedestrians, a black and white photo of a very busy and colourful construction scene
@lilmikesf@c.im
2025-10-19 18:41:01

#NorthAmerica's largest #semiconductor #convention skipped its traditional #MosconeCenter setup in

A tech conference skipped San
Francisco this year — and it paid off
A banner debut in a different city is raising questions about a permanent move for North America’s largest semiconductor conference, which has long been a San Francisco area mainstay.

Silicon Valley's homegrown companies like Intel and Nvidia
joined more than 20,000 attendees in Phoenix for SEMICON West — North America’s largest trade conference for the
semiconductor industry.

 | Phoenix Photo by Ross D. Franklin/AP