In the past two years, the chip industry has exploded and attracted attention from all sides. A new year and a new beginning, what is the real situation of this industry now? Is there a future in the chip industry? Let’s talk about it in detail below, hoping to give you some help if you want to enter a high-paying industry.
Why are chip engineers so expensive?
First of all, the training period for chip engineers is long, and there are many things to learn to become a qualified engineer. It needs to go through a variety of chip tape-outs, and the cost is very high, so chip engineers are more expensive.
Some media once said in the process of reporting: "The current market is that many people who have switched to the chip industry, some of them just participated in a few months of training, can get a good salary. They are all newbies and have never experienced flow. They have also entered the chip industry.”
In the past two years, the phenomenon of robbing people with high salaries in the semiconductor industry has repeatedly occurred. In fact, this itself is an unreasonable phenomenon. As the saying goes, there is no prosperity without bubbles, and the same is true for the talent market. Even now the company has reduced recruitment and raised the threshold. But the semiconductor industry is indeed a sunrise industry. For chip people, this is a stage where they can strive for more than ten years.
How can I get a million dollars a year?
Enter the leading enterprise
It is not easy to achieve an annual salary of one million, but it is not that difficult to enter a leading company in the industry with basic salary + stock dividends + performance bonus. These add up to an annual salary of one million. Of course, it is also possible that some entrepreneurial companies can obtain certain shares.
Entered the chip department of new energy vehicles and mobile phone companies
The development trend of new energy vehicles is good, especially after the sharp rise in chip prices in 2021, they have begun to develop their own chips and recruit chip engineers. The scale of investment in new energy vehicles is large, so the treatment of talents is relatively good. In addition, the development of domestic mobile phone chips has been limited in the past two years. If you want to make a breakthrough, self-developed chips are essential. Now that the policy is tilted and the investment in R&D is added, it is not too difficult to achieve a million annual salary.
Chip Startups
This can be seen from the many start-up chip companies that closed down last year. Although the entire department of these people has been laid off, their salary level is not low, especially the annual salary of the backbone R&D staff is more than one million.
The chip industry itself is a technology-driven industry. It takes a long time to cultivate a talent, so there is no middle-aged layoff crisis. Compared with other industries, involution will be much better, and many links have common knowledge and skills. Development It is also possible to transfer jobs during the process.
In the end, although the development prospect of this industry is good, the salary is also high. But if you want to enter the industry, you need to think carefully. Don't choose the chip industry just for high salary. High salary is not so easy to get. The industry itself has certain thresholds.
Especially since last year, the threshold has been raised. The era of the first two years when you can enter the industry just by learning casually has passed. If you want to do this industry, you must have a solid foundation of knowledge and accumulate corresponding project experience. Only in this way can you improve yourself competitiveness.
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