SEMI (International Semiconductor Manufacturers Association) pointed out a few months ago that semiconductor device (chip) revenue soared by 22% in 2017 to nearly 450 billion U.S. dollars; sales of semiconductor manufacturing equipment rose 36%, while materials added more than 104 billion US dollars; chip revenue is expected to increase by 7% in 2018 and semiconductor equipment will grow by more than 11% in 2018. In particular, new talent is the key to continued strong growth, breaking the record of all revenues for the semiconductor industry.
Ajit Manocha, president and CEO of SEMI, said that talent has become the bottleneck of industrial growth, for example, in the Silicon Valley alone, there are thousands of job vacancies and more than 10,000 vacancies worldwide. And developing new global human resources is a key factor in sustaining innovation and growth.
For enterprises, the cultivation of semiconductor talents is a long process. Especially in the advanced technology and advanced technology, it is even more ineffective to spend money. As a result, the storming of the semiconductor industry has started.
Intel Dalian 3D NAND capacity expansion, go to Taiwan to dig horn pay TSMC
According to Taiwanese media reports, Intel Dalian Plant, which has expanded its 3D NAND Flash capacity in an all-round way, recently recruited talents from Taiwan again and held a face-to-face meeting at the National Taiwan University in mid-March. Payroll came as a result of the TSMC specification level. Localization as the goal, Intel's visit to Taiwan to find talent, but also lead the industry concerned about the global development of 3D NAND Flash technology is now Samsung, SK Hynix, Micron / Intel, Toshiba have mastered, as the public sector one after another break through the technology bottlenecks and the market Demand surge, in recent years have announced expansion of capacity to defend the market share. Among them, Intel's recent moves frequently, following unexpected expectations announced in early January 2018 and Micron will complete the third-generation 3D NAND Flash R & D cooperation will terminate, each Looking for partners, and said it will continue to expand 3D NAND-based Dalian plant production capacity, the recent re-visit to Taiwan to recruit large-scale talent.
Due to the previous Intel Dalian plant announced in 2010 and the transition to the production of 3D NAND Flash chips in 2015, both native to mainland China and publicly stated that in order to realize the localization of high-end talent, more than 300 mainland engineers went to the United States, Singapore In fact, in the past, Dalian factory engineers mostly used mainland Chinese as the mainstay, and this visit to Taiwan also triggered the concern of the semiconductor industry in Taiwan and mainland China. The manufacturer said that Intel's Dalian factory is mainly dominated by local talents in mainland China. Since it cooperated with the local government, it has also been shouting the target of fostering semiconductor talents in mainland China. The current visit to Taiwan also shows that related semiconductor manufacturers Although the Chinese government actively organizes talents cultivation programs at various polytechnics and generously hires international experts such as Taiwan, it still lags behind Taiwan's accumulated years of professional training and actual combat experience. At present, it is difficult for mainland China to meet the actively expanding semiconductor industry Talent demand, coupled with the talented people in Taiwan in recent years due to low pay, So going out to Taiwan as the most cost-effective way to hiring .Intel to attract talented people in Taiwan, came the salary hiring, whether graduates or experienced personnel, at least the basic specifications of the level of TSMC take off , Definitely better than the current treatment.Taijiu 2018 census only 3000
In addition to Intel, the next five years revenue will be 5 to 10% compound growth rate is now fully under the implementation of Nanke's 5-nanometer, 3-nanometer advanced process plan for TSMC, 2018 will also be a large-scale solicitation of 3,000, About 1,000 candidates will be recruited on the campus. The first will be held on March 3 at the NTU. The number of recruiters recruited by the other recruits will be about 2,000. By the end of the year, the estimated number of employees will exceed 50,000.
It is understood that TSMC is a grassroots technician salary plus dividend treatment have at least NT $ 1.2 million take off, 10 years of experienced engineers at least about 100,000 US dollars, the two major semiconductor manufacturers also started in March Big plans, duel competition annual salary, benefits, but also unexpectedly set off a wave of semiconductor industry to grab a new wave of war.
An overall lack of IC talent in mainland China, constantly digging angle
After years of development, a group of qualified personnel has been cultivated in our country, but neither the quantity nor the quality are enough to support the rapid development of the current industry. Specifically, there are mainly two problems in the current status of talent in mainland China: First, the lack of high-end talent; the second is the same lack of basic personnel in the field of integrated circuits.
According to calculations, China's IC industry needs about 70-80,000 employees by 2020. But we can only meet about half the demand now.
China's semiconductor makers launched an offensive to close the gap and even catch up and surpass the introduction of talent from all over the country, most notably when Leong Mengsong switched from Samsung to SMIC last year.
In addition, Chinese companies also started operations in the Silicon Valley in the United States, and Ziguang Group, which expanded its semiconductor business, established a design base in the fall of 2016. 'We are developing new memory' and a 40-year-old male technician revealed that from nearby The United States Micron Technology and Western Digital switched to purple technical staff of more than 40. 'In order to defeat Samsung, you need to work hard', allegedly they are also working during the Christmas holidays. Purple light to the acquisition of Micron Technology in 2015 by the U.S. government veto , But it is hard to conceal the enthusiasm for introducing technology from the United States.
In Taiwan without any language barrier, these enterprises have also started mass excavations, and if they switch to mainland enterprises, they will have to pay 2 to 3 times their salaries. The operator of the Taiwanese semiconductor giant is having a headache and claims that it was taken away last year More than 100 people. "Taiwan's top science and technology focus on the semiconductor industry, the income is also high.
Earlier, Taiwanese media also disclosed that the mainland of Berthing will set up a site in Taiwan and offer salaries higher than the first-line IC design houses to capture ASICs and artificial intelligence elites from makers such as MediaTek, Morningstar, and Creative.
Recently, Taiwan DRAM maker Nanya Branch said relevant Chinese manufacturers have gradually dredged about 50 people. In order to leave important technical personnel, the company also dropped a large sum of money. According to the key technical personnel, it offered a program of retention of only about 500 people. At this stage to give cash.
However, it is clear that they are hard-pressed to deal with mainland enterprises in terms of treatment.
It is noteworthy that, although the high-profile digging angle, the introduction of foreign talent can make up a certain short-term domestic semiconductor industry, high-end leading talent gap, but for the basic talent, we must rely on strengthening university education and business training capabilities. Tsinghua University Microelectronics Wei Shaojun, director of the institute and chairman of IC Design Branch of China Semiconductor Industry Association, pointed out in particular that in order to solve the problem of shortage of talents in integrated circuits in our country, we should try to change the current institutional mechanism through the structural reform of supply side with the reform mentality The only way to establish a long-term development mechanism.