…staff and member company volunteer engineers showed examples of wafers and semiconductors, conducted an electricity experiment using lemons, and helped kids try on the iconic bunny suit used in fab…
…not been updated since, and there is widespread consensus from a wide range of stakeholders that the law needs to be reformed. In the coming weeks, the Senate may have…
…more competitive with traditional sources of power generation. These two examples represent just a sampling of the ways that semiconductors can contribute to meeting our global energy and climate challenges….
…(NSF) has supported fundamental research to enable advanced wireless technologies, including advanced materials science and engineering, and acted as a catalyst for academic, industry, and community leaders to work together…
…logistics experts who keep the complex industry supply chain humming. Additionally, the U.S. semiconductor industry supports over a million additional workers in the U.S. In fact, for every semiconductor industry…
The World Semiconductor Council (WSC) announced last month that it successfully completed the phase-out of intentional uses of perfluorooctanoic acid (PFOA), its salts, and PFOA-related compounds in photolithography or etch…
…of the semiconductor value chain is explained in part by the extreme complexity and competitive nature of the industry itself. Nonstop, consumer-driven demand for more and better capabilities, features, reliability,…
…discuss the importance of federal investments in research. SIA’s comments, sent in response to DOE’s request for information (RFI) on basic research in microelectronics, commended DOE for advancing a basic…
…companies and erode our global competitiveness. We urge the Administration to work with allies and partners to make these rules plurilateral. Ongoing support of existing U.S. subsidiaries in a country…
…computing, and advanced communications technologies. SIA called for a significant increase in research funding in its 2019 policy blueprint, Winning the Future, and the Endless Frontier Act is a major…
…to approve companion legislation (S.697) in short order. The House and Senate would then need to reconcile the two bills before sending the legislation to the president. Semiconductors – the…
…for the global semiconductor supply chain and products distributed in interstate commerce. The pending bills do not completely fix this problem, but the bills represent a positive step forward in…