Universities across mainland China are rushing to set up new schools and departments focused on semiconductors, in a push to develop more skilled talent to support Beijing’s strategic goal of chips self-sufficiency amid the country’s intense hi-tech rivalry with the United States.

Shenzhen Technology University, an institution of higher education established in 2018 by southern Guangdong province and the coastal city known as China’s Silicon Valley, announced last week that it has set up a school focused on integrated circuits (ICs) in cooperation with Semiconductor Manufacturing International Corp, the mainland’s largest and most advanced chip foundry.

The new school will enrol 60 students this fall, training them to become highly skilled talent for IC design and manufacturing, according to the university.

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