On April 25, according to the China Times Electronic News, TSMC, a leading semiconductor company, will implement a "stock buy subsidy" program for more than 50,000 employees in order to attract talents to join and retain talents. At present, the company has confirmed this plan and is discussing the relevant implementation details. This is the first time since the establishment of TSMC that employees have been encouraged to buy their own stocks in the form of subsidies.
Xiao Lei learned that TSMC's "share buy subsidy" plan is mainly to deduct a part of the employee's monthly salary to buy the company's shares, and the company will also subsidize a part of it, so that employees become shareholders. It is reported that the proportion of TSMC's subsidies is about 15% or less, and it is expected to be implemented in July this year.
In addition, TSMC will carry out annual routine salary increases in April every year, and it is expected that the average salary increase this year will reach 8%, and some employees with excellent performance will have a salary increase of more than 10%, in order to make employees reluctant to leave, while attracting more technical talents with high salaries.
As one of the world's largest semiconductor foundries, TSMC can be said to have taken money in recent years, and its revenue is getting higher and higher year by year. According to the latest financial report released by TSMC, the total revenue in the first quarter of 2022 was about 17 billion US dollars, and the net profit exceeded 7 billion US dollars (about 45.8 billion yuan).
Advanced technology production line accounted for more than half of TSMC's revenue, 5nm, 7nm demand is still very strong, by Apple, Intel, AMD and other manufacturers to seize a shortfall, and now TSMC built factories around to expand production capacity, or can not fully meet the foundry needs of chip manufacturers. In order to curb the steady stream of orders, the company has also raised the OEM price of some processes.
At present, the demand for iPhone continues to grow, but also led to TSMC revenue climbing, it is said that Apple will increase the output of iPhone 13 Pro, iPhone 13 Pro Max, the total production of the two models increased by about 10 million units, it is estimated that TSMC for Apple's orders, but also to work overtime.
The shortage of chips in various industries is still serious, especially the rapid development momentum of new energy vehicles, and the demand for chips may be much higher than that of products such as smart phones. At the current growth rate, TSMC's revenue is expected to double in the second quarter of 2022.
In addition to chips, Xiao Lei believes that there is also a shortage of scientific and technological talents, the competition for talents between various enterprises is very fierce, TSMC wants to retain existing employees and attract new people, and increasing income is a more effective means. I have to say that the semiconductor industry has made more and more money, and the small partners engaged in related industries have become more and more expensive, which makes us workers envious to the extreme.