Global universities have joined a new alliance aimed at strengthening the pipeline of workers with expertise in semiconductors.
The Semiconductor Education Alliance is being coordinated by Arm, the Cambridge-headquartered chip-making giant, which warned that the sector was “at a tipping point when it comes to the skills gap”, with a “clear mismatch” between the abilities that employers want and those held by university graduates.
Founding members include, in the US, Cornell University; in Europe, Anglia Ruskin University, the University of Southampton and the Polytechnic University of Valencia; and in Asia, the Indian Institute of Technology Jodhpur.
Arm said alliance members would develop online courses and open educational resources, create accelerated qualification pathways, and develop competency frameworks tailored to the needs of specific geographies.
