US Chip Industry Faces Worker Shortage: Only 3% of Engineering Students Go Into Chips
ns123abc · x · 2026-09-19
An industry observation making the rounds: the US semiconductor industry faces a massive worker shortage, with only 3% of engineering students going into chips while the rest flow into AI.
A quoted comment adds the structural angle: integrated design-manufacture ecosystems would be far more common if Silicon Valley still made silicon there, but failures on housing and power dispersed the industry — and new grads don't want to move to Phoenix, rural Ohio, exurban Texas, or Boise.
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