Congressional pressure mounts to pass $52b CHIPS Act The Biden administration wants the $52 billion CHIPS Act passed without delay, according to a classified briefing between senior officials and a bipartisan group of Congressional representatives. The group gathered to "discuss the urgent need to invest in made-in-America semiconductors as well as research and development that …
>Can't compete with global mega-corps?
Intel's Oregon fab can't compete with Intel's fabs in Ireland and Israel?
Then the US needs to offer the same 'incentives' that Eire and Israel offer.
Intel's European fabs can't compete with the new fab in Arizona ? Looks like they are going to need more 'incentives' to keep the European fabs open
of the 0.01% will pay off congress critters to either pass or block the vote on this bill?
If these rich dudes have lots of overseas sweatshops where the workers are paid $0.10/hour then they have no interest in passing this bill.
OTOH, if a state senator can see a FAB coming to their neck of the woods then even if they vote against it and it passed, they will trumpet is as something that they were in favor of.
US Politics is a swamp... Donald 'I am the greatest president EVER' Trump promised to drain it but instead he added more alligators to it.
The US system was devised in the 18th century and set up to suit the needs of a tiny number of wealthy landowners and it has not been substantially reformed since.
The need for modernisation is pretty obvious, but because the system is sclerotic it resists change. History shows us that eventually change is imposed on those sorts of systems through violence which will not be good for anyone.
There was an excellent news article and one comment in particular on the EE times web page "US Electronics Reshoring Plan Risks Missing the Boat" that points out that the US has also fallen well behind in current and future Printed Circuit Board manufacturing and technology. Most of the advances in IC's also need new and innovative ways to manufacture PCB's that connect them together. The US has lost most of its PCB R&D and manufacturing capability to overseas providers, mainly China. This is as great an economic and national security risk as relying on overseas for the bulk of the ICs we use here in the US. I applaud Intel, Micron Technology and Analog Devices for advocating that government funding needs to be handled in a way that best serves the interests of the US and not just a few mega companies (see "This may seem weird but don't give us all the chip funding, say Intel and friends", The Register). I just think we need to make sure that we cover more areas of concern than this funding is aimed at.
That's the whole irony, Intel / Nvidia / AMD will use this to build cutting edge fabs, because these are the most expensive so govt $$$ helps and it gives them negotiating power with TSMC.
But its going to do nothing for the shortage of 25c chips in cars
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