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America's chip factories are running short on workers, and Samsung and TSMC are feeling it

9/17/2026

is running short of trained workers for semiconductor manufacturing, the industrial process of building silicon chips, at a moment when demand for those chips is climbing.

Samsung and TSMC, two of the world's largest chipmakers, are among those facing the shortage most directly.

Chipmakers and American universities are working to address it, but the problem is, by industry accounts, historic in scale. The shape of the problem Semiconductor manufacturing is not a generalist trade.

The skills it requires are tied to specialized equipment and processes that most engineering and technical programs do not teach.