The training ground for the engineers of the American century.
ChipReady.org is a 501(c)(3) nonprofit. We exist to take people who have never touched a cleanroom and carry them to a real job building the technologies the next century runs on — semiconductors first, then the AI hardware, robotics and quantum systems that sit on top of them.
Who hires the people.
The companies building and equipping fabs across the region, and the national partners the node works with. These are who our people are trained for.
Together with regional aerospace and defense electronics manufacturers and the wider U.S. semiconductor equipment supplier network. Micron alone is investing roughly $30 billion in Boise, which the Department of Commerce estimates will create at least 4,000 engineering and technician jobs in the city.
Held across the whole network rather than one state.
9 states, 33 members.
PINES — the Pacific-Intermountain Network for Education in Semiconductors — spans nine states. Universities, community and technical colleges, employers, industry councils and workforce agencies, listed here as members of that consortium. ChipReady is one of them.
The full membership of the node, by state. Alongside it sit more than 200 K-12 and STEM education partners reaching over 15,000 students a year.
Where the money comes from.
ChipReady’s programs are federally funded through the National Network for Microelectronics Education. The chain, in full, because public money should be traceable:
This work is supported by the National Science Foundation under Award No. 25Z2966, as part of the National Network for Microelectronics Education administered by the SEMI Foundation. ChipReady.org participates as a subrecipient of Boise State University. Any opinions, findings, conclusions or recommendations expressed here are those of ChipReady.org and do not necessarily reflect the views of the National Science Foundation.
Hiring, teaching, or funding.
There is a way in for each — and a person on the other end of every one of them.