> Did anyone offer you a course on how to design ICs in university? Yes, standard courses in Computer Engineering, at least here at Vienna's Institute of Techn

> Did anyone offer you a course on how to design ICs in university? Yes, standard courses in Computer Engineering, at least here at Vienna's Institute of Technology, which with comp. eng. and masters in similar fields (just a slight focus shift to, e.g., the modelling/verification side) there's about the same order of magnitudes of students graduating per year too. Chip foundries do not go where their employees graduate, but where they get gov incentives for building their fabs.