Bloomberg Technology
US Chip Sector Needs More Talent, Says SEMI
President Trump says he discussed guardrails on AI and Nvidia’s H200 chips with Chinese leader Xi Jinping during a two-day summit in Beijing. Shari Liss, vice president of global workforce development and initiatives at SEMI, joins Bloomberg’s Caroline Hyde and Ed Ludlow on “Bloomberg Tech” to discuss what this means for the US semiconductor sector.…
@ps3301
May 15, 2026 at 6:31 pm
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@Maclabhruinn
May 15, 2026 at 6:53 pm
It would be great if the US could build up its own semi conductor fab industry, but … getting people to work in fabs will be the hardest part. You need people with PhD level education, willing to work in uncomfortable, noisy, unpleasant production line settings for 10 hours a day. You can do that in Taiwan. In the US, there are people willing to work in those industrial conditions, and also people with the requisite education and skills – but the intersection of those 2 groups is tiny. You would have to pay massive wages to keep the workers – which would then tilt the economics of production. With great respect to Shari Liss, she’s talking about bandaid solutions to a massive structural problem.