Semiconductor Industry Consortia Strives to Fulfill High Tech Jobs in Northeastern States.Business Editors/High-Tech Writers BOSTON--(BUSINESS WIRE)--June 8, 2000 With industry growth projections of 20% through 2003, local high tech companies, including Alpha Industries Alpha Industries is a clothing manufacturer founded in 1959 in Knoxville, Tennessee. The company makes items such as flight jackets and vests, and has made jackets for the military of the United States like the M65 Jacket. Two models are the MA-1 and CWU-45/P pilot jackets. , Analog Devices Analog Devices (NYSE: ADI) is an American multinational producer of semiconductor devices. Analog specializes in ADC, DAC, MEMS, and DSP chips for consumer and industrial goods. Analog is presently designing circuits in the 65 nanometer to 3 µm process feature sizes range. , IBM (International Business Machines Corporation, Armonk, NY, www.ibm.com) The world's largest computer company. IBM's product lines include the S/390 mainframes (zSeries), AS/400 midrange business systems (iSeries), RS/6000 workstations and servers (pSeries), Intel-based servers (xSeries) , Intel and M/A-COM, colleges and industry consortia join forces to kick-off a campaign that will promote semiconductor training and career opportunities in the northeast. This industry initiative intends to fill a portion of the national demand of more than 25,000 semiconductor technicians and skilled operators needed over the next three years, 3,000 of which are projected to be in the northeast. In their first year of employment technicians can earn as much as $30,000-$40,000. Beginning in June, companies and colleges will be hosting industry awareness and enrollment events at local colleges throughout the summer. These programs will put individuals and communities in contact with local representatives of semiconductor manufacturers, colleges, and technical schools to explore the employment opportunities and learn how to prepare for challenging jobs in the semiconductor industry. Future program events and additional information are also available to interested persons at www.4chipjobs.com or by calling a 800/4CHIPJOBS. In addition to the computer and networking industry, wireless telephones, personal digital assistants and products that connect consumers to the Internet Internet Publicly accessible computer network connecting many smaller networks from around the world. It grew out of a U.S. Defense Department program called ARPANET (Advanced Research Projects Agency Network), established in 1969 with connections between computers at the are driving the demand for silicon. International Data Corporation (IDC) estimates that by 2004, 600 million people worldwide will connect to the Internet via PCs, 1.4 billion will hook up through cell phones, and another 1.4 billion will connect through wired phones. The only way the semiconductor industry can ensure this explosion of growth is if trained and qualified technicians and operators are available to hire. "In the fast growing market for M/A-COM's wireless semiconductor products, it is critical that we be able to meet our customers' requirements," said Rick Hess Hess , Walter Rudolf 1881-1973. Swiss physiologist. He shared a 1949 Nobel Prize for his research on the brain's control of the body. , President of M/A-COM. "Having the right people with the right skills within M/A-COM now and in the future is a top priority." "Our current and future growth is limited by our inability to find skilled technicians," said George Levan levan Dentistry A fructose homopolymer linked by β-2,6 bonds, formed by the partial digestion of sucrose by Bacillus and Streptococcus spp, which is a component of dental plaque representing the first biochemical event in cariogenesis. , Director of Human Resources The fancy word for "people." The human resources department within an organization, years ago known as the "personnel department," manages the administrative aspects of the employees. for Alpha Industries. "We currently have over 50 openings for skilled operators and technicians and predict that number to climb to 100 by next year. Alpha Industries strongly supports the partnership between these community colleges and corporations to provide the education and training needed for this skilled workforce". "Intel will hire 800 people over the next two years to fill jobs in New England New England, name applied to the region comprising six states of the NE United States—Maine, New Hampshire, Vermont, Massachusetts, Rhode Island, and Connecticut. The region is thought to have been so named by Capt. in all phases of semiconductor design and manufacture," said Peter Starvaski, Staffing manager at Intel's Hudson campus. "Programs such as this one that generates awareness of the tremendous opportunities within the industry and provides training and education will help to create the highly skilled resources we need build our workforce of tomorrow." Semiconductors are now America's largest manufacturing industry -- contributing to nearly 20 percent more to the U.S. economy than the next leading industry. In 1999, the semiconductor industry reached $149 billion in sales worldwide and in 2002 is expected to reach over $234 billion. Semiconductor companies, colleges and associations across the country are working to expand their workforce to accommodate this growth. In conjunction with this program, co-sponsored by the SIA Sia (sī`ə) or Siaha (sī`əhə), in the Bible, family returned from the Exile. SIA - Serial Interface Adaptor , the industry will be spent $250K to run similar programs this summer in Oregon Oregon, city, United States Oregon, city (1990 pop. 18,334), Lucas co., NW Ohio, a suburb adjacent to Toledo, on Lake Erie; inc. 1958. It is a port with railroad-owned and -operated docks. The city has industries producing oil, chemicals, and metal products. , Texas, Arizona, New Mexico New Mexico, state in the SW United States. At its northwestern corner are the so-called Four Corners, where Colorado, New Mexico, Arizona, and Utah meet at right angles; New Mexico is also bordered by Oklahoma (NE), Texas (E, S), and Mexico (S). , Pennsylvania and Florida.
The local companies and colleges participating in the program
include:
Companies:
Alpha Industries, Woburn, MA
Analog Devices, Norwood, MA
IBM, Essex Junction, VT
Intel Corporation, Inc., Hudson MA
M/A-COM, Lowell, MA
Colleges:
Middlesex Community College, Lowell, MA
Vermont Technical College, Randolph Ctr., VT
Quinsigamond Community College, Worchester, MA
Massachusetts Bay Community College, Wellesley, MA
Northern Essex Community College, Haverhill, MA
University of Massachusetts, Lowell, MA
New England Institute of Technology, Warwick, RI
For additional information, please call Pam Eddinger at Mass Bay Community College at 781/239-3181 or eddinger@mbcc.mass.edu, or Molly molly see mare hinny. Marr at the Semiconductor Industry Association at 408/573-6612 or mmarr_sia@attglobal.net. |
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