In a recent development, US semiconductor companies are seen contacting Korean engineers experienced in EUV lithography due to its chronic manpower shortage.
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The report indicates that the shortage in manpower is because local manufacturing facilities are expanding fast. Therefore Samsung Electronics is planning to build a foundry in Texas by investing 20 trillion won, and many other companies like Intel will also invest a greater amount.
Additionally, equipment suppliers are also increasing their employment for example we can see ASML is currently recruiting EUV lithography engineers in Texas in relation to the new foundry of Samsung Electronics.
The reason behind this shortage is because as we see this EUV lithography technology evolved in South Korea and Taiwan and has been used for couple of years, which is now quickly becoming mainstream tech now.
EUV Lithography used for?
EUV lithography is used to pattern the finest details on the most advanced microchips because it can pack more transistors onto a single chip. These chips can be mass-produced affordably, which also have more processing brainpower, use less energy, and have higher performance.
Adding to it the news firm said, at present, the US-based semiconductor companies are contacting a large number of South Korean engineers, experienced in this EUV tech that has been previously unstaffed by them, and now they are facing issues.
A manpower shortage is accelerating in the semiconductor industry in the U.S. Intel CEO Pat Gelsinger recently asked the U.S government to resolve the issue. looking at the post covid scenario Micron technology and TSMC, and many more are increasing their investment in the United States. If the concern keeps growing, we hope that the U.S government will be surely take a business policy review to resolve this issue.
