Funding US Semiconductor Foundries

Ther e are many reasons to be pessimistic about the future of this country at the moment, and most of them are hard to ignore. But there are also new glimmers of hope appearing in important areas, even if they don’t get much media attention.

Specifically, it appears that Congress is finally beginning to take semiconductor manufacturing and supply chains seriously. There are currently two major proposals in the Senate that aim to rebuild America’s semiconductor production capacity, and these initiatives follow TSMC’s decision to build a semiconductor fab in Arizona, with significant federal and state support. Read Full Article »