Japan’s largest microchip manufacturers are experiencing a serious shortage of engineers, writes the Financial Times.
The Japan Electronics and Information Technology Industry Association (JEITA), commenting on the initiative of the Japanese government to increase the production of microchips, noted that the country’s largest manufacturers will need to hire about 35,000 engineers in the next ten years to implement the plan of the country’s authorities. According to Tokyo Science University professor Hideki Wakabayashi, despite the fact that “there is more talk about the shortage of microchips, the biggest shortage is engineers.”
According to the Bureau of Statistics of Japan, the number of workers aged 25 to 44 years old employed in the microchip industry was about 380 thousand in 2010. At the end of 2021, this figure was only 240 thousand.
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