By 2030, United States will have minimum two clusters of semiconductor manufacturing
At least two large-scale logic fabs for the production of semiconductors as well as numerous high-volume advanced packaging facilities will be built in the United States thanks to funding from the $52 billion CHIPS and Science Act, according to the announcement by Commerce Secretary Gina Raimondo.
Each cluster will have a strong ecosystem of suppliers, specialised infrastructure, and R&D facilities to continuously develop new process innovations, she made this statement to students at Georgetown University’s School of Foreign Service. “Each of those clusters will include thousands of well-paying jobs for workers.”
Advanced memory chips will be produced in American factories, or “fabs,” “on economically competitive terms,” Raimondo added. The fabs will also aid in supplying the demand for mature-node and current-generation chips, which are “particularly crucial to economic and national security,” she noted.
These are the chips that are used in many of our defence systems, as well as in autos and medical equipment, she continued
She declared that “this is really a national security problem.” “As I indicated, export controls are about retaining a technology edge; CHIPS is about obtaining one,”
The government’s plans to invest $11 billion in what it refers to as a National Semiconductor Technology Center were reiterated by the secretary of commerce.
The centre will actually consist of several locations across the nation with the goal of “solving the most impactful, relevant and universal R&D challenges in the industry,” according to Raimondo. “The vision for it is an ambitious public-private partnership where government, industry, customers, suppliers, educational institutions, entrepreneurs, and investors converge to innovate, connect, and solve problems,” she added.
Most significantly, the NSTC will make sure that the United States sets the standard for the upcoming semiconductor technologies—from quantum computing, materials science, and artificial intelligence to applications we haven’t even considered yet.
