China’s top school Tsinghua creates chip college to address severe talent shortage

China’s prestigious Tsinghua University has established a specialised chip college to train much-needed semiconductor engineers, showing its commitment to the national goal of chip self-efficiency amid a global shortage exacerbated by the tech war between Washington and Beijing.

The new school of integrated circuits (ICs) is based on the original department of microelectronics and nanoelectronics and department of electrical engineering, according to state news agency People.cn. The university introduced the semiconductor major back in 1956 and the school has cultivated more than 4,000 undergraduates, 3,000 postgraduates, and 500 PhDs in the IC field, the report said.