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Talent shortage has been a big headache to global semiconductor companies and may push them into a long-term scramble for professionals. How to tackle the issue became a core topic of discussion among participants at the recent Taiwan IC Design Industrial Policy White Paper Presentation co-hosted by the Taiwan Semiconductor Industry Association (TSIA), DIGITIMES Asia, and MediaTek.
"When I did my research at Stanford University, the cleanroom was mainly staffed by those from East Asia and India," recalled Dr. Chih-Huang Lai, Vice Dean of the College of Semiconductor Research under Taiwan's National Tsing Hua University (NTHU) - long a hub of Taiwan's IC talent cultivation. "In the foreseeable future, we might no longer see Taiwanese in Taiwan's own cleanrooms as well," Lai lamented.
To enhance the competitiveness of its back-end process "packaging," SK Hynix has divided its procurement department starting in 2023. For the first time, the procurement department has both a front-end and a back-end process team.
MOSFET and SiC diode supplier Panjit International will likely kickstart volume production of high-end IGBT (insulated gate bipolar transistor) devices in June this year, targeting industrial control applications, according to industry sources.
India's interest in developing a semiconductor manufacturing ecosystem has been the subject of much discussion. However, there are other closely related segments that offer just as many opportunities but receive less attention. One such area is MEMS (micro-electromechanical systems), which are becoming increasingly important components in various industries.