Blog: 02/24/14

SIA Promotes STEM Education through Discover Engineering Family Day

…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…

Blog: 10/07/15

Congress Has Historic Opportunity to Modernize U.S. Chemicals Law

…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…

Blog: 06/11/14

Advanced Semiconductors Enable Cleaner, More Efficient Use of Energy

…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….

Blog: 04/24/19

Winning the Race to 5G and Beyond Requires Ramping Up Public-Private Research

…(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…

Blog: 09/02/16

Recognizing the U.S. Semiconductor Workforce this Labor Day

…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…

Blog: 07/09/24

Global Semiconductor Industry Announces Phaseout of Intentional Uses of PFOA

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…

Blog: 05/04/16

Beyond Borders: The Evolution and Importance of the Global Semiconductor Value Chain

…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,…

Blog: 09/09/19

SIA Commends DOE Research Initiative, Calls for Robust Federal Investments to Advance Semiconductor Technology

…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…

Blog: 10/10/23

SIA Weighs in on Potential Outbound Investment Regime

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…

Blog: 05/27/20

SIA Applauds Introduction of “Endless Frontier Act” to Advance U.S. Technology Leadership

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…

Blog: 06/24/15

House Approves Needed Updates to Federal Chemicals Law

…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…

Blog: 05/20/15

SIA Supports Efforts to Modernize U.S. Chemicals Law

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…