It still takes a lot of people to run a wafer fab. Intel fabs for instance are highly automated but you still need folks to keep tabs on the machines and also folks to fix them. These factories staff quite a lot of people depending on their size, and the more machines you have, the more people you need.
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It still takes a lot of people to run a wafer fab. Intel fabs for instance are highly automated but you still need folks to keep tabs on the machines and also folks to fix them. These factories staff quite a lot of people depending on their size, and the more machines you have, the more people you need.