Depends on what you mean by "the chip industry"? - Designing CPUs and digital logic chips? You'd start with a computer engineering degree focusing on computer

Depends on what you mean by "the chip industry"? - Designing CPUs and digital logic chips? You'd start with a computer engineering degree focusing on computer architecture and VLSI design. - Designing analog or RF chips? You'd start with an electrical engineering degree. - Fabricating chips from bare silicon wafers? That's an intersection of chemistry, applied physics, material science, and electrical engineering. Look up the course requirements for degrees at universities with engineering programs and you can see what courses and textbooks are used for each.