Sino-Singapore Jingwei Client, April 22 (Fu Yumei) On the occasion of the 110th anniversary of Tsinghua University, the School of Integrated Circuits of Tsinghua University was formally established on the 22nd.
The college will aim at the "stuck neck" problem of integrated circuits, focus on the frontiers of integrated circuits, strengthen cross-integration, break through key core technologies, cultivate talents urgently needed by the country, and support the independent innovation and development of China's integrated circuit industry.
It is understood that in October 2020, the Degree Committee of Tsinghua University voted to establish a doctoral and master degree authorization point for first-level disciplines in integrated circuit science and engineering.
The newly established College of Integrated Circuits will be jointly established by the original Department of Microelectronics and Nanoelectronics and the Department of Electronic Engineering, taking advantage of Tsinghua University's multidisciplinary advantages, exploring the "1+N" joint mechanism, and establishing cross-research centers with related departments to achieve complete coverage Talent training and scientific research in the integrated circuit industry chain.
Integrated circuits are called the "heart" of electronic products.
With the advent of a new round of technological revolution and industrial transformation, the role of integrated circuits as a key enabling technology has become more and more important.
Academician Hao Yue, director of the Information Science Department of the National Natural Science Foundation of China, said in his speech that integrated circuits have strong multi-disciplinary characteristics, and high-end chips are the crystallization of the intersection of basic research and cutting-edge engineering technology. It is necessary to achieve major technological breakthroughs and primitives. Innovation breakthroughs increasingly require the joint integration of multiple disciplines and the integrated innovation of multiple key technologies.
At the same time, many guests talked about the industry's urgent need for innovative talents in the field of integrated circuits.
"Integrated circuits have become the foundation for the realization of informatization and intelligence in all walks of life. They are the'steel' and'petroleum' constructed by the information society. Driven by Moore's Law, the attributes of the asset-heavy industry have led to the development of integrated circuit manufacturing. We are always facing the real challenges of high barriers, high risks, and cruel competition. But the real bottleneck in the development of integrated circuits is the shortage of talents." Zhang Xin, senior vice president of SMIC and general manager of SMIC North, said on the spot.
"Despite the rapid development of China's integrated circuit industry, key core technologies are still constrained by others. High-end chips, equipment materials, EDA design tools and other links have insufficient technical research and innovation capabilities, and basic research is out of touch with industrial needs, and there is a shortage of technology accumulation and innovative talents." Academician Qiu Yong, President of Tsinghua University, said in his speech that the School of Integrated Circuits must adhere to the value orientation of serving the country's major strategic needs, and stimulate the vitality of discipline construction through deepening reforms.
Speech by Academician Qiu Yong, President of Tsinghua University
According to reports, in terms of faculty, the Institute of Integrated Circuits will establish a high-level teaching and research faculty team through flexible and pragmatic employment mechanisms such as part-time and double-employment.
At the same time, the college will conduct a full range of production and education integration with leading companies in various fields of the industrial chain, and carry out high-level talent training and high-level scientific research in response to the most advanced technology and most urgent needs of the industry.
Academician Qiu Yong also mentioned that there was a lack of integration between disciplines and industries in the field of integrated circuits before. In the future, greater efforts will be made to promote the integration of production and education, and strengthen the integration of discipline cultivation and actual industry needs.
"Using industrial advantages to train talents, and then develop newer technologies, to achieve talent training that completely covers the integrated circuit industry chain."
Nowadays, the problem of high-end chip "stuck neck" has attracted the attention of the industry.
How does the Institute of Integrated Circuits promote the cultivation and introduction of high-end talents in this regard in the future?
Chi Baoyong, a professor at Tsinghua University's Institute of Microelectronics and deputy director of the design office, said in an interview with Sino-Singapore Jingwei Client that many links in the field of integrated circuits are now facing a shortage of talents, and high-end chips are also one of them.
However, high-end chips are generally a relatively broad concept. From the perspective of talent training, the college has trained undergraduates in the major categories of electronic information so that undergraduates can already have a relatively strong information foundation, and they will do it in the future. High-end chip research.
In terms of research, Chi Baoyong talked about several key breakthroughs in the future, one is reconfigurable processors, the other is memory, and the third is high-end analog chips.
In addition, in the process of promoting industry-university integration, the college will also consider the composition of the entire industrial chain when selecting partners, "including our choice of internship bases, but also according to the chain of the industrial chain to select the corresponding head enterprise. For example, chip design, chip manufacturing, etc. In order to serve national key areas, we will also choose some research institutes."
According to reports, in terms of talent training, the College of Integrated Circuits will recruit undergraduates, professional masters, academic doctoral students, and special doctoral students at different levels and categories.
The training of undergraduates will adopt large-scale training and academy training models, and the training of masters and doctoral students will focus on high-level innovative talents.
(Zhongxin Jingwei APP)
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