Facing the future and deepening school-enterprise linkage, Teradyne helps cultivate integrated circuit testing talents in China

A delegation from the Secretariat of the Chinese Graduate Student Innovation Competition, Anhui University, and Hefei University of Technology visited Teradyne Hefei Branch

May 8, 2023, Beijing, China - Teradyne, a global advanced automatic testing equipment supplier, announced that the recent visit of universities to Teradyne Hefei Branch was successfully concluded . Tu Conghui, Secretary-General of the Secretariat of the China Graduate Student Innovation Competition, Wu Xiulong, Dean of the School of Integrated Circuits of Anhui University, Xia Haojie, Dean of the School of Instrument Science and Optoelectronic Engineering of Hefei University of Technology, and Huang Zhengfeng, Vice Dean of the School of Microelectronics, visited Teradyne Hefei The branch visited the branch. Mr. Hou Yi, Director of Engineering Development of Teradyne China, and Ms. Liu Yiying, China Market Communication Manager, warmly received all the guests and conducted roundtable discussions around topics such as "school-enterprise cooperation and talent cultivation".

During this visit, Mr. Hou Yi reviewed Teradyne’s long history, core product line introduction, and IC and ATE market size overview to the visiting guests. He said: “Teradyne has been deeply involved in the Hefei semiconductor industry. For 15 years, the company has attached great importance to educating cores and people, and has reserved excellent testing talents locally. In recent years, the company has actively carried out a series of in-depth cooperation with local universities in Hefei, and increased its efforts to support China in cultivating its own semiconductor testing talents. Contribute more impetus to the rapid and healthy development of China’s semiconductor industry.”

Benefiting from the steady development of the semiconductor industry, the scale of integrated circuit automatic test equipment (ATE) continues to expand. As a key part of the semiconductor industry, ATE runs through the entire process of semiconductor design, manufacturing and packaging, and is crucial to monitoring product yield and judging product quality. However, as semiconductor technology continues to evolve, a single chip carries more and more functions, which makes integrated circuit testing significantly more difficult. At the same time, the rapid growth of the market has also brought about a huge talent gap, affecting the development of the industry. In this context, establishing professional skills-oriented school-enterprise cooperation is an urgent need for industrial development. As a leader in the global automatic testing industry, Teradyne is deeply aware of the importance of school-enterprise cooperation and collaborative education. Since 2019, Teradyne has established integrated circuit automatic testing university projects with many universities in China, aiming to share rich testing experience with Chinese college students, promote high-quality docking of education and industry, and increase the speed of professional talent training.

Dean Wu Xiulong of the School of Integrated Circuits of Anhui University said: “A complete industrial knowledge background and rich practical experience are the qualifications for a student to graduate from school. Although universities now invest a lot of resources in education and teaching, they still cannot fully meet the needs of industry and The rapid development of technology requires talents, which in turn affects the overall balanced development of the industry. The cooperation established by Teradyne and our institute not only provides us with strong support in advanced testing technology, but also improves the richness of teaching and industry matching. It also creates opportunities for teachers and students to enter the enterprise and builds a bridge for accumulating technical talent reserves.”

Dean Xia Haojie of the School of Instrument Science and Optoelectronic Engineering of Hefei University of Technology said: "Teradyne Hefei Branch has played an important role in accelerating the cultivation of high-end talents in local universities. Under the premise of the current strong support from the country for the development of the semiconductor industry, strengthening the production The deep integration of education, study and research is a matter of far-reaching significance. By studying Teradyne's university courses, the practical ability of our students has been improved, allowing them to integrate into the work environment faster. The visit to the Hefei branch also gave our teachers and students a deeper understanding of all aspects of integrated circuit testing, which helps students plan and think about their careers in advance.”

The Teradyne University project takes the actual job needs of the company as the starting point, extracts the most critical skills, knowledge and qualities of the company and integrates them into the curriculum, allowing students to have a more direct and effective connection with the integrated circuit industry, and at the same time, it is targeted To effectively improve students’ scientific research capabilities and employment quality. So far, Teradyne's university projects have been fruitful and have trained hundreds of testing talents for the industry together with Hefei University of Technology and Anhui University.

Since entering the Chinese market, Teradyne has promised to support the long-term development of the Chinese semiconductor industry. In addition to actively providing services to the semiconductor industry, it is also committed to effective cooperation with universities in talent training, introducing industry-leading technology into university topics through cooperative development of practical courses, and helping China cultivate its own testing integrated circuit testing talents. In the future, Teradyne will also plan to jointly build university projects with universities in more regions, further promote the school-enterprise collaborative education model, and help the rapid development of China's semiconductor industry.