The US needs “robust partnership” between top universities and private industry as it works to beef up domestic semiconductor-manufacturing capacity, Commerce Secretary Gina Raimondo said.
“We really have to just get a lot more serious about it, and also develop new pipelines,” Raimondo said Tuesday. “The forecasts are that we’ll be about 100,000 semiconductor technicians short in the next handful of years, if we don’t do something differently. That’s a huge problem. It’s also an opportunity.”
“Frankly, the thing that worries us most is workforce development,” said Thomas Sonderman, president and chief executive officer of Skywater Technology, Inc. “If we don’t have people to get excited like we all did when we joined this industry, then it won’t succeed.”
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