Money Today Reporter Han Ji-yeon | 2024.04.11 06:00

2030 Semiconductor Manpower Gap Forecast/Graphic = Kim Hyun-jeong The United States, which has attracted cutting-edge factories of major semiconductor companies such as Samsung Electronics, Intel, and Taiwan’s TSMC based on massive subsidies, has rolled up its sleeves to solve the manpower shortage this time. It demonstrated its will to complete semiconductor hegemony by securing engineers with important semiconductor technologies. If there is a shortage of front-line manpower in the semiconductor industry, building a high-tech factory may be useless.

On the 10th, the Semiconductor Industry Association (SIA) announced ‘Policy Blueprint for Building Future Semiconductor Manpower’. Explaining the importance of securing semiconductor manpower, he pointed out that “it is directly related to the U.S. economy and national security,” and that “the issue of maintaining America’s competitive position in the emerging technology industry depends on well-trained manpower.”

In the United States, as the semiconductor industry has focused on fabless (semiconductor design) in recent decades, there is an acute shortage of high-quality manpower with advanced manufacturing knowledge. TSMC announced that it would delay the completion of its foundry plant under construction in Arizona, USA, citing ‘manpower shortage’ as the main reason. Jinman Han, head of Samsung Electronics’ Semiconductor Americas (DSA), also mentioned the local semiconductor technology workforce in the U.S. Vice President Han attended the ‘Six Five Summit 2023’ last year as a speaker and said, “It is difficult to solve the problem of the shortage of technicians and engineers we need. “This problem must be resolved. It is all ultimately a people issue,” he said.

SIA estimates that there are currently about 345,000 workers in the semiconductor industry, and that the number of related jobs will increase by 115,000 by 2030. There were concerns that if this continues, 67,000 of the increased jobs may not be filled due to a shortage of technicians and engineers. At the same time, he argued that in order to solve the manpower problem, a national policy is needed to directly nurture and attract engineering and scientific talent, and train skilled manpower.

As a specific measure, he argued that a pipeline to supply engineers and scientists should be established. This means that we need to nurture students majoring in STEM (Science, Technology, Engineering, and Mathematics) and lead them to become professionals by making them familiar with the semiconductor industry from the time they are students. “We must provide high-quality workforce training programs while increasing funding for federal research and development (R&D) programs,” SIA argued. Because we need to continue to increase the number of people involved in STEM majors, we need to remove financial obstacles for students wanting to enter these programs.

To this end, we believe that we must actively engage in attracting international students. He argued that in order to bring in high-quality talent, we need to be flexible regarding nationality and educational background. According to SIA, 60% of graduates majoring in semiconductor-related engineering and computer science at U.S. universities are international students. SIA said, “We must reform immigration policies to ease residency requirements so that they can remain in the United States and contribute to the growth of our economy.”

He also believed that in addition to high-level science and technicians, there are many jobs in the manufacturing field that do not require a four-year degree, and suggested that the government should create a training program for professional workers and foster them directly.

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