Internships? Yeah, nah. TSMC doesn't hand out technology NDAs to interns, which makes them kinda useless.
All in all, the IC design field is a decade or two behind software dev in terms of ergonomics. They're not going to attract a lot of talent, if the tooling remains as kludgy and unreliable as it is. What if GCC or Clang crashed on you once in a while "just because"? That's the reality of IC design flow.
On the flip side, the world at large has just realized the importance of chips, which makes the outlook mildly positive.
All in all, the IC design field is a decade or two behind software dev in terms of ergonomics. They're not going to attract a lot of talent, if the tooling remains as kludgy and unreliable as it is. What if GCC or Clang crashed on you once in a while "just because"? That's the reality of IC design flow.
On the flip side, the world at large has just realized the importance of chips, which makes the outlook mildly positive.