First of all, there is a shortage of chip design talents, and in terms of the current demand of the industry, there is still a big gap in the number of talent training.
In addition, the threshold for entering the chip industry is relatively high, and there are very few schools with tape-out opportunities. What is Tape-out? The simple explanation is that after the chip is designed, a trial production is carried out, generally speaking, dozens of pieces are produced, more than hundreds of pieces, and the trial production of the chip must be tested to verify its function, and if there is no problem, large-scale mass production will begin, and the process of trial production is called tape-out.
In fact, there are a few top colleges and universities in the country that have the opportunity to tape-out, and most of the other students can only have such opportunities after entering the job, and he has one of the biggest differences from software development, what you see is what you get, and what you develop can see, and the design of the chip, if it is not produced, it is impossible to verify whether it meets the design requirements, so the process of tape-out also determines that the entry threshold of this industry is very high, and it takes one to three years to train a qualified chip designer. Generally speaking, in chip design companies, it takes a lot of effort to cultivate talents, so chip designers will not be easily laid off, so the probability of being eliminated in the chip industry is much lower than that in the computer industry.
In addition, due to various reasons in recent years, the country's policy tilt towards the chip industry in terms of strategy, and the prospects of the chip industry in the future are still very good.
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