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Yeah at some point the market has to correct itself. There's no way guys like Intel/AMD can keep this up. "Can't afford" simply isn't true given our insane ne

• ChuckNorris89 4y ago
  >There's no way guys like Intel/AMD can keep this up. They can. They're aggressively expanding in Europe and Asia where the EE wages they pay are very good for the local market. Also, Israel is a major tech hub where Intel, AMD, Apple, Nvidia and others develop plenty of cutting edge tech. Not everything has to be done in the US with US wages and those companies know it and are taking advantage of it.
• jinto36 4y ago
  I think that microelectronics engineering is treated as a separate subfield from electrical engineering. I went to RIT which AFAIK is reasonably well-respected for MicroE, and while it wasn't my major, I have some friends who were in it, and they're all getting paid pretty well at Samsung and AMD and Intel. Even 15 years ago, anyone who graduated would be insta-hired somewhere for a reasonable salary. There were a lot of specialty courses for MicroE that weren't in EE, in addition to projects in the teaching fab and such. I recorded video for classes with distance-learning students as a student job, some of which were MicroE, so I basically got paid to audit Semiconductor Metrology taught by Dr. Lynn Fuller (who founded the MicroE program and apparently retired last year).