Integrated circuit is one of the most important scientific and technological inventions of mankind in the 20th century, and its invention marks that mankind has entered the information age. Integrated circuit engineering is an engineering major at graduate level, which belongs to the first-class interdisciplinary fields such as electronic science and technology, information and communication engineering, computer science and technology.

The iteration speed of programming languages is much faster than that of digital and analog electronics. Compared with the serious Internet industry and financial industry in the domestic market, the threshold of chip industry is higher, and it is difficult for employees in other industries to join halfway. Domestic chip design manufacturers are good employment choices.

Before the major of integrated circuits was established as a first-class discipline, Wang Zhihua, deputy director of Tsinghua University Institute of Microelectronics and professor of Tsinghua University Department of Microelectronics and Nanoelectronics, once said in an interview with the media, "Take Peking University and Tsinghua as examples, the undergraduates of Tsinghua Peking University have less than one class every year.

Recently, there are ten to twenty undergraduates who meet the quality standards of personnel training every year, and one hundred to two hundred undergraduates are trained in ten years. Other brother IC universities train students 100 or so, with thousands in ten years. At present, dozens of universities in China cannot meet the talent demand of integrated circuit industry, and the total amount of talent training is not optimistic. The supply of industrial talents does not match the growth rate of industrial development. "