C.M. Huang 黃志明

Raising a daughter in Hsinchu while the news talks about blockades

I am a process integration engineer at a foundry in Hsinchu. I will not say which one and I will not say anything about work, customers or yields, please do not ask. I want to write about something else: what it is like to live here, in the middle of a topic that people far away discuss like a strategy game. The ships on TV My daughter is 7. During the large drills, the news shows maps with red arrows around our…

Typhoon week at the fab: the city stops, the fab does not

We had our first strong typhoon of the season last week. Some colleagues abroad asked me "do you get the day off?" and the answer is complicated, so I want to write about it from the inside. I cannot say anything about my company, the tools, the yields or the customers, so please do not ask. I will only write about the people. How a typhoon day works here When a typhoon is coming, each city and county government…