Scarred by long hours, low pay, and a hostile work culture, many chip workers are leaving for competitors, including American companies.

• Once a global leader, Samsung Electronics is losing in the fierce semiconductor race to dominate AI supplies.
• It’s also losing engineers, leaving the remaining staff to work long, intense shifts to compensate for vacancies.
• Engineers say they are required to falsify data and defects are slipping through, affecting chip quality.

Samsung is desperate to compete on chips. Workers say it comes at a cost.

Long hours, low pay, and a rigid culture are driving engineers out of Samsung’s chip division, raising concerns over ai chip quality and competitiveness.

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