As software jobs decline, US universities train engineers for chipmaking roles

As traditional software engineering roles decline due to the disruption caused by AI, universities across America are now preparing the students for careers in semiconductor manufacturing, according to a report by CNBC. A new data from Mckinsey and the SEMI Foundation warns of a shortage of up to 157,000 chip workers by 2030, underscoring the urgent need for skilled engineers and technicians to support the country’s fastest chip buildout in history. "I'm concerned," Jon Taylor, executive vice president of Samsung's semiconductor division in Austin, Texas, told CNBC. "We just don't see that there's enough technical people in the pipeline."Shortage comes as the US undergoes its fastest chip manufacturing expansionThe shortage comes as the US undergoes its fastest chip manufacturing expansion in history, driven largely by the race to produce enough memory and logic chips to power artificial intelligence.