104 Human Resources Bank and Industrial Research Institute jointly launched the "Semiconductor Talent Report" on July 28, revealing the supply and demand comparison and salary present that job seekers are most concerned about in the myster...
104 Human Resources Bank and Industrial Research Institute jointly launched the "Semiconductor Talent Report" on July 28, revealing the supply and demand comparison and salary present that job seekers are most concerned about in the mysterious Taiwanese semiconductor industry, and further analyzing the appearance and demand of future semiconductor talents.
With the ability of semiconductor industry to expand, 104 reports pointed out that since the second half of 2023, the job shortages in the three major semiconductor industry have increased by more than 60%! Among them, in May 2025, nearly 10,000 people were missing in "R&D" and "Production and Manufacturing/Qualification Control/Environmentation". If all categories are added, the number of people in the single month's semi-conductor business is 34,000.
In this regard, 104 Human Resources Bank head Long Wenxiong pointed out that the main reason is the increase in the number of enterprises' shortages, which is compared with the decline in the population structure of the middle and high-age population and the birth population in Taiwan, which is why there are a vacancies of hundreds of jobs and the continuous increase in the lack of semiconductor jobs in Taiwan. In addition, Huang Rensha announced in June that NVIDIA's new headquarters in Taiwan would be added to the North Side Science Institute, which is expected to set off another wave of talent. "The 104 Career Expo came on that day, and the NVIDIA team was ranked unchanged."
▲ 104 Human Resources Bank and Industrial Research Institute jointly launched the "Semiconductor Talent Report" on July 28.
Four of the ten job vacancies cannot be recruited! Operation and repair are even more lackingLin Zhaoxing, deputy director of the Institute of Technology and director of the International Institute of Industry and Technology, pointed out that in the past 14 years, Taiwan's IC industry has grown three times. At the same time, the population of newborns has dropped by two%. It can be seen that behind the acceleration of economic engines, semiconductor industry has faced two difficulties in the growth and talent level.
"Far-Visit" has obtained 104 consecutive times. In the past three years, the supply and demand ratio of the three major job shortages in the semiconductor industry has changed. It has been found that for three consecutive years, the supply and demand of "R&D" and "Production and Manufacturing/Quality Control/Environmental" has not reached 0.6, that is, for every ten job shortages, four of them have been recruiting less than a long time.
As for the most urgent "operation/technology/maintenance" of the shortage, because the working hours are required, and the shift is required, and the supply and demand ratio is not up to 0.3 in three years, that is, there are seven consecutive vacancies for every ten vacancies released.
With the limitation of local talent databases, the most immediate and long-term way is naturally to connect with the international community, which is also a strategy that is being deployed by a large semiconductor manufacturer such as Taiwan Electric and Sun and Moonlight. According to Su Mengzong, deputy director of the Institute of Technology and Research, Taiwan has great potential to become the "Hub (Ling New Zealand) for the cultivation of global semiconductor talents."
For example, Taida Electric's factory in Thailand, commonly known as "Taida Electric", sends talents to Taiwan for training. Not only that, Mexico selected 30 public overseas students to Taiwan for training in 2024, and increased to 40 in 2025. After graduation, we returned to Mexico. We hope it can be used by Taiwanese businessmen to supplement the most commonly reflected needs of Taiwanese businessmen in Mexico, namely the lack of local talents.
All kinds of cases show that Taiwan is gradually becoming a global semiconductor industry. "Far See" further asked, how can Taiwan's semiconductor industry respond to the outflow of top talents under the attractions of foreign investors and international companies by foreign companies and more competitive salary and benefits?
"Talents in Taiwan can command (require) a 10-fold return on talent in the world," Su Mengzong pointed out that Taiwan's semiconductor industry is the world's top talents. If Taiwan's top talents go abroad, their prices will have a chance to be ten times the salary of the country. In other words, when Taiwan’s top talents are at the best level to the world, it is unlikely to encounter international competition, but many top talents often return to Taiwan with the experience and experience of foreign businessmen, which is expected to bring greater rewards and contributions to Taiwan’s society.
On the other hand, although there are still challenges for Taiwanese manufacturers to pay international top-level salary, they are already on the right path and will continue to upgrade. "The salary level of Taiwan's semiconductor industry has surpassed Japan," as Taiwan's semiconductor industry moves to international level, salary and benefits will also rise.
In the Postmort era, "biota talents" were popular!As for the characteristics of semiconductor talents in the future, Lin Zhaoxing pointed out that the industry structure often "long-term integration will lead to division, and long-term division will lead to unity". As semiconductors enter the "Post-mortar Law", NTEC began to cross the field of sealed testing, indicating that the boundary of vertical division of industry is gradually blurring, and will deepen the trend of "product direction" in the key field, which will further lead to high-value international cooperation.
"The demand for talents has become not addition, but multiplication." Lin Zhaoxing pointed out that in the next step, "multiplication-shaped talents" with professional skills at the front and back end, business management and cross-country capabilities will become a major talent focus in the era of semiconductor "global manufacturing".
Similarly, as technology becomes more complicated, it is also more important to "apply drive talent cultivation". Wang Xuanzhi, a senior analyst at the Institute of Industry and Technology, pointed out when he accepted the "Far-seeing" interview with the server hot-spreading solution of high-performance data centers, The industry has found that vertical division of labor is no longer enough to meet the needs of the application side. "NVIDIA is considered in every link from the chip design and super chip heat dissipation, to the server host, and then to the entire machine cabinet heat dissipation." This kind of technical needs that integrates front and back ends and considers the final products will also bring a new look of talents.
▲ Lin Zhaoxing, deputy director of the Institute of Technology and director of the Institute of International Studies.
"Made in the United States" is terrifying, the key supply chain talents are shockingTaiwan Electric's permanent report pointed out that there are about 1,100 cooperative suppliers, of which 572 are defined as "key". Wang Xuanzhi further pointed out that this is closely related to the "re-industrialization" that the United States is promoting, and this will drive talent flow. It is still necessary to observe the US's attitude. It is still difficult to judge the degree of influence of talents at this stage..
The reason is that Taiwan’s advantage is “one-day supply chain”, but the United States has a large population and the manufacturing industry has moved out for a long time. If we want to re-copy this model, it will still face multiple layers of difficulties.
For example, Wei Zhejia, chairman of Taiwan Electric, once revealed that the technology of "economic product-grade sulfuric acid" is not high, but the United States does not produce it. "If it is done (forced), Taiwan Electric will have to buy it at five times the price." In addition, there are many key supply chains. Taiwan Power will use these key materials from Taiwan to ship these key materials. That is to say, if the US manufacturing industry is to be implemented in the future, it still lacks many key talents and suppliers, which may also affect Taiwan's talent supply and demand.
