Semiconductor Demand Is Infinite. The Talent Isnt.

The artificial intelligence boom has created an almost bottomless appetite for computing power — and with it, an equally bottomless appetite for the engineers who design the chips that make it possible. Across the semiconductor industry, companies are confronting the same uncomfortable reality: the hardware demands of the AI era are scaling faster than the workforce capable of meeting them. Trevor Bauer, corporate vice president at AMD and site leader for its Longmont, Colorado campus, has a clear-eyed view of that gap. He sits at the intersection of the company’s engineering ambitions and the talent pipeline that has to sustain them. What he…