When U.S. lawmakers proposed the CHIPS and Science Act a few years ago, they set a rather vague goal of significantly increasing domestic chip production by building new fabs. But the US government will move the wheels next month by accepting applications for semiconductor projects.And this week, Commerce Secretary Gina Raimond Overview The ambitious goal that the country has in mind with the CHIPS and Science Initiative.
The Biden administration wants the United States to develop and produce the world’s most advanced chips on its own by 2030. To bring the industry’s most sophisticated process technology to America, the U.S. government expects at least two new large-scale clusters of state-of-the-art logic fabs to emerge. Both should have a strong supplier ecosystem, professional infrastructure, and R&D operations.
The government also expects chip makers to deploy a large number of advanced chip packaging facilities in the US.
Both goals are achievable as Intel, TSMC and Samsung Foundry build advanced chip factories in the US. Intel is also building an all-new campus in Ohio that includes a state-of-the-art factory and advanced packaging facility. TSMC plans to retain its most sophisticated node in Taiwan for the next few years, but as its Arizona campus expands (and is rumored to include advanced packaging operations over time), It may start manufacturing chips at its cutting-edge node in Taiwan. good. The same is true of the Taylor, Texas factory that used to make state-of-the-art chips in Texas.
In addition to the world’s most advanced logic and packaging facilities, the U.S. government wants the country to produce advanced memory chips on economically competitive terms that Micron hopes to achieve. I’m in. As it happens, Micron has plans to deploy his two major memory fabs in Idaho and Ohio in the US by the end of the 2010s.
The U.S. government also wants chipmakers to expand capacity for current-generation and mature-node chips that are most critical to the country’s economy and national security.
“We want the U.S. to be the only country in the world where every company capable of producing cutting-edge chips has a significant R&D and mass production presence,” Raimondo said. Achieving is not easy. We are ambitious, but we are not naive.”
Next week, a special jury will begin considering applications by various parties to receive funding and other incentives to build and develop chips in the United States.
$39 billion will be allocated for manufacturing incentives, and another $11 billion will be invested to build a strong semiconductor R&D ecosystem.
