China News Agency, Taipei, August 4th. Taiwan’s human resources organization "104 Human Bank" released the 2021 "Semiconductor Industry Talent White Paper" on the 4th. According to Taiwan’s average monthly semiconductor talent gap of 27,701 in the second quarter of 2021, this is New high in the past six and a half years.
Among them, various engineer positions account for about 55%.
Taiwanese public opinion pointed out that compared with other economies, the current island's semiconductor industry has no competitive advantage in salary, and the current situation of education cannot fill the talent gap, which is the main problem facing the semiconductor industry.
Comprehensive reports from Taiwan media such as the Central News Agency and United News Network. Benefited from the development of emerging fields such as artificial intelligence, 5G, and the Internet of Things, remote work and remote teaching during the new crown pneumonia epidemic drive demand, and high-performance computing drives market growth. Taiwan Job vacancies released by the semiconductor industry have risen for four consecutive quarters.
Huang Yuchun, general manager of "104 Manpower Bank", said that the pressure of semiconductor talent shortage continues to "break the table". One of the reasons is that the salary of Taiwan's semiconductor industry is difficult to have a competitive advantage.
Take IC design engineer as an example. After conversion, the average annual salary of this position in Taiwan is 1.7 million yuan (NTD, the same below). In comparison, the annual salary of the same position in the United States is about 3.5 million yuan, and the same position in Singapore and Japan. It is about 1.9 million yuan and 1.8 million yuan respectively.
The semiconductor industry is a pillar industry of Taiwan's economic development, and its output value in 2020 has exceeded NT$3 trillion.
On August 3, Taiwan’s major integrated circuit manufacturing company TSMC closed its market value at US$552 billion, making it the most valuable company in Asia.
But for a long time, Taiwan's "five shortfalls" of "water, electricity, land, labor, and talent" have restricted the further development of the semiconductor industry.
Public opinion believes that the current gap in semiconductor talent has reached a new high, which has sounded the alarm for Taiwan's semiconductor talent cultivation.
Tsai Ming-Jie, chairman of MediaTek, a leading IC design company in Taiwan, recently wrote to the media that due to the impact of declining birthrate and economic globalization, a shortage of local scientific and technological talents in Taiwan has appeared, and the shortage of talents will inevitably affect the development of science and technology.
In recent years, Taiwan's basic research capabilities and achievements in emerging technology fields such as artificial intelligence and quantum computing have lagged far behind, which indirectly proves this point.
Cai Mingjie pointed out that universities are the beginning of higher education and the cradle of scientific and technological talents.
For students who are aspiring to develop in the fields of mathematics and science, if the basic mathematics education in high school is not enough study hours and the depth of the course is insufficient, the quality of future scientific and technological talents will be reduced.
Cai Mingjie said that it is more important to note that if the university entrance examination system fails to identify science and engineering talents and connect with higher technological education, it will cause talent misplacement and make local outstanding students directly choose to study abroad after graduating from high school. If things go on like this, it may exacerbate the shortage of local R&D talents in Taiwan and undermine the global competitiveness of the semiconductor industry. (Finish)