A US Semiconductor Industry in Crisis Needs a Workforce that Doesn't Yet Exist

An anonymous reader writes: The chipmaking industry is in a race to build and open manufacturing plants in the US and it’s not clear it will have the skilled workers it needs to successfully return. Rafts of people new to the tech industry have been drawn from various careers into the sprawling effort to find, train, and hire the workers needed for US fabrication plants. Despite efforts by manufacturers and schools to ramp up education and apprenticeship programs quickly and make chipmaking jobs ‘cool,’ the skills shortage continues to threaten the burgeoning effort to bring chip production back to the US.