Blog: 11/20/17

Agreement on Regional Support Guidelines Headlines Meeting of Global Semiconductor Industry, Governments

and best practices for communicating about regional support programs in the industry. Regional support refers to government-led industrial policies aimed at promoting domestic semiconductor sectors. The agreement was reached at…

Blog: 02/16/21

Trade in Transition: The Importance of Re-Establishing U.S. Trade Leadership

…by cutting bureaucratic red tape and making border processes more efficient. The Agreement on Subsidies and Countervailing Measures (ASCM) was a strong step toward fairer competition among companies, not governments….

Blog: 03/29/17

Semiconductors Remain Export Leader for U.S. in 2016

…3 percent. In addition, semiconductors continued to be the number one electronics product export in 2016, well ahead of computer equipment, telephones, communications equipment, and other well-known electronics. It is…

Blog: 04/08/22

SIA Highlights Low Risk of Forced Labor in Semiconductor Supply Chains

…production include the United States, Brazil, Malaysia, France, Germany, Norway, South Korea, and Australia, none of which are regions of concern. The testimony reflected comments filed by SIA on March…

Blog: 02/02/17

Our 2017 Policy Plan to Spur U.S. Semiconductor Industry Growth and Innovation

and to allow American businesses to compete on a more level playing field with our competitors abroad. Tax: The U.S. tax code puts American companies at a competitive disadvantage to…

Blog: 05/14/19

Second-Place America? New Report Highlights Mounting Global Competition for Technology Leadership

…Triple federal investments in semiconductor-specific research to $5 billion annually and double federal funding for semiconductor-related research in fields such as materials science, computer science, engineering, and applied mathematics to…

Blog: 12/01/16

SIA Urges President-Elect Trump to Support Policies that Promote Innovation

…calls for investing in basic research, enacting pro-growth corporate tax reform, ensuring free and fair access to global markets, strengthening America’s technology workforce, and promoting advanced manufacturing. “U.S. semiconductor technology…

Blog: 11/02/16

Government, Industry Leaders Discuss Steps to Strengthen U.S. Semiconductor Industry

…ensure Beijing’s actions adhere to market principles and global norms. “China’s effort to move up the value chain should be the result of healthy competition and free and fair trade,…

Blog: 07/19/16

Congressional Research Arm Produces Report on the U.S. Chip Industry

…public policy research arm of Congress. It works primarily and directly for Members of Congress and their Committees and staff on a nonpartisan basis. CRS reports have a strong reputation…

Blog: 07/01/16

Global Deal to Slash Tech Tariffs Goes into Force, but with a Hitch

completed the technical work they needed to do at home to live up to the commitments they made in Nairobi to implement on July 1, there are some notable slowpokes….

Blog: 03/31/16

What End-Use Applications Drove Semiconductor Sales in 2015?

Communications (34.1 percent of total sales) and PCs/computers (29.7 percent) remained the top semiconductor markets by end-use in 2015, according to the recently released World Semiconductor Trade Statistics (WSTS) Semiconductor…

Blog: 03/09/16

The Semiconductor Seven: SIA’s Top Trade Priorities

…markets for the most innovative and effective encryption products Prevent countries from taking actions that block or place discriminatory restrictions on commercial foreign products with encryption, or that block companies…