University of Southampton launches skills drive to support semiconductor industry
The University of Southampton is collaborating with a number of big tech businesses to develop a new generation of skilled workers capable of developing and maintaining the next generation of semiconductors.
Experts from the university have joined the launch of the new Semiconductor Education Alliance, a group aimed at addressing the global shortages of electronic device designers and upskilling the existing workforce.
Semiconductors have become vital to world manufacturing businesses and are used in all mobiles and computers, alongside healthcare, transport and for clean energy technology.
The new Alliance will see Southampton’s School of Electronics and Computer Science partner with firms including Arm, Cadence, Synopsys, ST, Arduino, Taiwan’s TSRI, the All India Council for Technical Education, Cornell University, and Cambridge University.
Professor Geoff Merrett, from the University of Southampton, said: “We will lead on developing two important global communities of practise among the academic community. The first to improve delivery of skills in electronic design and the second in using state-of-art design to improve academia’s ability to improve research outcomes.”
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The University of Southampton helped pioneer the creation of electronics more than 60 years ago, and was also among the first developers of semiconductor technology.
Professor Mark Spearing, Vice-President Research and Enterprise at the University of Southampton, said: “The Alliance’s goals of creating global communities of practice, promoting the sharing of knowledge and developing the skills we need to build a better, more sustainable, and inclusive world are goals we share in common, and we look forward to addressing these shared challenges.”
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