Knowledge Diagram Navigation:

Spatial co-ordinations are initially random, and will automatically re-arrange to minimize complexity based on distance between relationships. Mouse down and drag to pan. Right click on the strategic diagram toggles between motion and stationary. Hover over abstract node (orange) to view abstractions. Hover over leaf node to view corresponding narrative. Left click on the leaf node expands the narrative to view full text.

Narrative Analysis - Report

Key Focus

The report claims the company's culture of chronic overwork, cruel managerial style, and poor treatment of its engineers in its Taiwanese plants has ported over poorly to an American labor force who are now leaving its new plant over perceived abuses. ...

TSMC's labor practices draw serious concern in Arizona - the company's new chip plant allegedly plagued by worker abuses ...

No momentum supporting factor found

Challenge supporting factors

(company,morris_chang)

Work-in-progress supporting factors

(tsmc,company,myriad)

(tsmc,workers,myriad)

(tsmc,workers,industry)

(workers,industry)

(tsmc,workers,heartbreaking)

(tsmc,workers,expansion)

(workers,expansion)

(tsmc,workers,arizona)

(company,labor)

(workers,american,labor)

(workers,labor)

Time Period	Challenge	Momentum	WIP
Report	11.20	0.00	88.80

High Level Abstraction (HLA) combined

High Level Abstraction (HLA)	Report
(1) (tsmc,company,labor)	100.00
(2) (tsmc,labor)	67.32
(3) (company,myriad)	62.75
(4) (workers,arizona)	62.75
(5) (tsmc,company,myriad)	60.78
(6) (tsmc,workers,myriad)	59.48
(7) (tsmc,workers,industry)	58.82
(8) (workers,industry)	58.17
(9) (tsmc,workers,heartbreaking)	57.52
(10) (tsmc,workers,expansion)	56.21
(11) (workers,expansion)	55.56
(12) (tsmc,workers,arizona)	54.25
(13) (company,labor)	52.94
(14) (workers,american,labor)	47.06
(15) (workers,labor)	45.75
(16) (tsmc,expansion)	45.75
(17) (company,arizona)	45.10
(18) (tsmc,arizona)	43.79
(19) (tsmc,company,arizona)	41.83
(20) (tsmc,rights)	41.18
(21) (tsmc,company,workers)	40.52
(22) (company,ported)	39.87
(23) (tsmc,company,ported)	37.91
(24) (tsmc,government)	37.25
(25) (workers,american,ported)	37.25
(26) (workers,ported)	35.95
(27) (company,overwork)	35.29
(28) (tsmc,company,overwork)	33.33
(29) (workers,american,overwork)	32.68
(30) (tsmc,chips_act)	32.03
(31) (tsmc,company,industry)	31.37
(32) (tsmc,company,expansion)	30.07
(33) (tsmc,american)	29.41
(34) (tsmc,company,chronic)	26.80
(35) (workers,american,chronic)	25.49
(36) (tsmc,company,chip)	24.18
(37) (tsmc,company,american)	22.88
(38) (tsmc,workforce)	13.73
(39) (tsmc,violations)	13.07
(40) (tsmc,united_states)	12.42
(41) (workers,overwork)	11.76
(42) (workers,myriad)	11.11
(43) (workers,company)	10.46
(44) (workers,chronic)	9.80
(45) (workers,american,company)	7.84
(46) (american,workdays)	6.54
(47) (american,manager)	5.88
(48) (american,high-pressure)	5.23
(49) (american,environment)	4.58
(50) (american,engineer)	3.92
(51) (company,reverence)	3.27
(52) (company,prioritize)	2.61
(53) (company,mountain)	1.96
(54) (company,morris_chang)	1.31
(55) (company,jobs)	0.65

Supporting narratives:

Please refer to knowledge diagram for a complete set of supporting narratives.

challenge - Back to HLA

This friendly fire between workers is heartbreaking to those who know that the only enemy in such a situation is not their fellow workers but the corporation that enables such workplace abuse.. . TSMC is not expected to slow down anytime soon, even with such worker rights abuses drawing ire. It will be able to charge consumers higher prices for its made-in-America parts, and the 12-figure CHIPS Act funding alone will provide ample incentive to keep trying to make the Phoenix expansion work ...
High Level Abstractions:

(tsmc,rights)

challenge - Back to HLA

TSMC, the world's leader in advanced chipmaking, has been a major recipient of the Biden administration's CHIPS Act, receiving billions of dollars from the US government in exchange for bringing semiconductor production to the United States. ...
High Level Abstractions:

(tsmc,united_states)
(tsmc,government)

challenge - Back to HLA

The corporation's position as the largest company in Taiwan is a concern for Western powers who fear a conflict with China could potentially hurt their ability to source TSMC chips. As a result, the government has been aggressively courting TSMC to open production in the US. ...
High Level Abstractions:

(tsmc,government)

challenge - Back to HLA

TSMC, the world's leader in advanced chipmaking, has been a major recipient of the Biden administration's CHIPS Act, receiving billions of dollars from the US government in exchange for bringing semiconductor production to the United States ...
High Level Abstractions:

(tsmc,chips_act)

challenge - Back to HLA

TSMC's $660 billion stature has grown to the largest company in its native Taiwan and has earned it godlike reverence, being called a "divine mountain that guards the nation" by some citizens. ...
High Level Abstractions:

(company,reverence)
(company,mountain)

challenge - Back to HLA

The inability to prioritize jobs and instead expect furious intensity on every task, no matter how large, was decried by Americans as poor management, which leads to inefficiency. But these intense expectations are a feature of company culture according to its founder, Morris Chang. Chang was quoted by Rest of World as saying, "If [a machine] breaks down at one in the morning, in the U.S., it will be fixed in the next morning ...
High Level Abstractions:

(company,morris_chang)

WIP - Back to HLA

TSMC's new expansion into Arizona has received serious scrutiny from engineers and industry insiders for its myriad examples of poor treatment of workers, says reporting from Rest of World. ...
High Level Abstractions:

(tsmc,company,workers)
(company,myriad)
(tsmc,workers,myriad)
(tsmc,company,myriad)
Inferred entity relationships (3)
(company,myriad) [inferred]
(company,myriad,tsmc) [inferred]
(myriad,tsmc,workers) [inferred]

WIP - Back to HLA

TSMC's new expansion into Arizona has received serious scrutiny from engineers and industry insiders for its myriad examples of poor treatment of workers, says reporting from Rest of World ...
High Level Abstractions:

(tsmc,workers,industry)
(tsmc,workers,expansion)
(workers,expansion)
(workers,arizona)
(workers,industry)
(tsmc,workers,arizona)
Inferred entity relationships (2)
(expansion,tsmc) [inferred]
(arizona,tsmc) [inferred]

WIP - Back to HLA

This friendly fire between workers is heartbreaking to those who know that the only enemy in such a situation is not their fellow workers but the corporation that enables such workplace abuse ...
High Level Abstractions:

(tsmc,workers,heartbreaking)

WIP - Back to HLA

TSMC's labor practices draw serious concern in Arizona - the company's new chip plant allegedly plagued by worker abuses ...
High Level Abstractions:

(company,labor)
(tsmc,labor)
(tsmc,company,labor)
Inferred entity relationships (3)
(company,labor) [inferred]
(company,labor,tsmc) [inferred]
(labor,tsmc) [inferred]

WIP - Back to HLA

The report claims the company's culture of chronic overwork, cruel managerial style, and poor treatment of its engineers in its Taiwanese plants has ported over poorly to an American labor force who are now leaving its new plant over perceived abuses. ...
High Level Abstractions:

(tsmc,company,labor)
(tsmc,company,american)
(workers,labor)
(workers,american,labor)
Inferred entity relationships (5)
(company,labor) [inferred]
(labor,workers) [inferred]
(american,company,workers) [inferred]
(labor,tsmc) [inferred]
(company,tsmc,workers) [inferred]

WIP - Back to HLA

TSMC's labor practices draw serious concern in Arizona - the company's new chip plant allegedly plagued by worker abuses. . . TSMC's new expansion into Arizona has received serious scrutiny from engineers and industry insiders for its myriad examples of poor treatment of workers, says reporting from Rest of World ...
High Level Abstractions:

(tsmc,company,chip)
(tsmc,company,arizona)
(tsmc,arizona)
(tsmc,company,industry)
(company,arizona)
(tsmc,expansion)
(tsmc,company,expansion)
Inferred entity relationships (7)
(arizona,tsmc,workers) [inferred]
(expansion,tsmc,workers) [inferred]
(expansion,tsmc) [inferred]
(arizona,company,tsmc) [inferred]
(industry,tsmc,workers) [inferred]
(arizona,company) [inferred]
(company,tsmc,workers) [inferred]

WIP - Back to HLA

The report claims the company's culture of chronic overwork, cruel managerial style, and poor treatment of its engineers in its Taiwanese plants has ported over poorly to an American labor force who are now leaving its new plant over perceived abuses ...
High Level Abstractions:

(workers,american,chronic)
(company,ported)
(workers,american,company)
(workers,ported)
(tsmc,company,overwork)
(workers,american,overwork)
(workers,american,ported)
(tsmc,company,ported)
(tsmc,company,chronic)
(company,overwork)
Inferred entity relationships (10)
(company,ported) [inferred]
(company,overwork) [inferred]
(american,company,tsmc) [inferred]
(company,workers) [inferred]
(company,overwork,tsmc) [inferred]
(company,ported,tsmc) [inferred]
(overwork,workers) [inferred]
(company,tsmc,workers) [inferred]
(ported,workers) [inferred]
(chronic,workers) [inferred]

WIP - Back to HLA

The workers claim that engineers found that they had to fake test results on production wafers in order to meet their impossible expectations.. . TSMC's future in the US. . Taiwanese workers who have become accustomed to such workforce rights violations and American workers used to complaining or quitting over the same conditions have not been able to fully mesh ...
High Level Abstractions:

(tsmc,rights)
(tsmc,workforce)

WIP - Back to HLA

The report claims the company's culture of chronic overwork, cruel managerial style, and poor treatment of its engineers in its Taiwanese plants has ported over poorly to an American labor force who are now leaving its new plant over perceived abuses.. . Taiwan's darling comes to the US ...
High Level Abstractions:

(tsmc,labor)
(tsmc,american)

WIP - Back to HLA

It will be able to charge consumers higher prices for its made-in-America parts, and the 12-figure CHIPS Act funding alone will provide ample incentive to keep trying to make the Phoenix expansion work. ...
High Level Abstractions:

(tsmc,expansion)
Inferred entity relationships (1)
(expansion,tsmc,workers) [inferred]

WIP - Back to HLA

It will be able to charge consumers higher prices for its made-in-America parts, and the 12-figure CHIPS Act funding alone will provide ample incentive to keep trying to make the Phoenix expansion work ...
High Level Abstractions:

(tsmc,chips_act)

WIP - Back to HLA

TSMC's future in the US. . Taiwanese workers who have become accustomed to such workforce rights violations and American workers used to complaining or quitting over the same conditions have not been able to fully mesh ...
High Level Abstractions:

(tsmc,violations)
(tsmc,american)

WIP - Back to HLA

TSMC's new expansion into Arizona has received serious scrutiny from engineers and industry insiders for its myriad examples of poor treatment of workers, says reporting from Rest of World. The report claims the company's culture of chronic overwork, cruel managerial style, and poor treatment of its engineers in its Taiwanese plants has ported over poorly to an American labor force who are now leaving its new plant over perceived abuses ...
High Level Abstractions:

(workers,overwork)
(workers,chronic)
(workers,myriad)
(workers,company)

WIP - Back to HLA

But in Taiwan, it will be fixed at 2 am." This marriage to impossible timelines was pounded into visiting American engineers with stress tests; assignments announced on the same week or even day to ensure American engineers could sacrifice personal time like a Taiwanese worker.. . Once production on the Arizona fabs progressed far enough, American workers were brought back stateside along with their Taiwanese coworkers ...
High Level Abstractions:

(workers,arizona)

WIP - Back to HLA

The report says American engineers were shocked to encounter the 12-hour workdays and a high-pressure environment; one engineer asked their manager which of his tasks was of the highest priority, which was met with the response, "Everything is a priority." ...
High Level Abstractions:

(american,manager)
(american,high-pressure)
(american,workdays)
(american,environment)
(american,engineer)

WIP - Back to HLA

The inability to prioritize jobs and instead expect furious intensity on every task, no matter how large, was decried by Americans as poor management, which leads to inefficiency ...
High Level Abstractions:

(company,prioritize)
(company,jobs)

Semantics Relevance

TSMC's labor practices draw serious concern in Arizona - the company's ...