“There were around 20,000 job openings in the semiconductor industry at the end of 2022, according to Peter Bermel, an electrical and computer engineering professor at Purdue University.”
Micron pledged up to $100 billion in New York and TSMC raised Arizona to $40 billion. The U.S. makes 12 percent of the world’s chips, down from 37 percent in 1990, and needs at least 50,000 more hires in five years. Intel is giving $50 million to 80 Ohio schools to train them. Washington pays for the fabs, and the colleges build the workforce on Intel’s spec.