The United States government introduced the CHIPS Act several years ago in an effort to develop the semiconductor chip industry in the country to meet the demands of various technology companies based in the country.
Although the government has allocated $40 billion to work on the industry, one major issue that is currently being shown is the lack of manpower for the industry. Although the United States is known as a country that comes up with a large influx of skilled workers from abroad, the issue now is that they want more local workers for this industry. By 2030, it is estimated that the country will lack as many as 67,000 workers needed for this semiconductor chip production sector.
For this, the United States government, through the National Semiconductor Technology Center (NSTC) will issue grants of $500 thousand up to $2 million for various types of programs to ensure that the United States has sufficient manpower to develop the industry.
These programs are expected to be developed together with leading semiconductor chip manufacturers such as Intel, TSMC, Samsung, Micron and so on, for which they have already received around $40-50 million specifically for workforce development.
It is also expected that with this new plan, the United States will add around 115 thousand new workforce in this sector by 2030.