U.S. Spending More Money On Chip Manufacturing Construction This Year Than In Previous 28 Years Combined
June 12th, 2024Via: Tom’s Hardware:
The Biden administration’s CHIPS Act is pumping money into chip manufacturing construction at an historic rate. According to a recent report from the U.S. Census Bureau, the growth of computer and electrical manufacturing construction funding is so great that the U.S. government will add as much funding to the sector in 2024 alone as it did in the prior 27 years.
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The construction growth began in 2021, but its explosive boom is due to a massive boost in funding from the CHIPS and Science Act, the Biden administration’s $280 billion spending package passed in 2022. The act was signed to help bolster the U.S. semiconductor industry, which accounted for effectively 0% of all advanced-process chips manufactured worldwide. Companies including Intel, Samsung, and Micron have all received billions of dollars to build new manufacturing plants in the United States. Domestic research and development is also a major focus of the funding package.
The construction funding is making a major impact on the United States’ projected chip production. A recent Semiconductor Industry Association study found that the United States is due to triple its domestic chip manufacturing capacity by 2032, and is expected to be producing 30% of the world’s leading-edge chips by the same year. This expectation exceeds even the government’s inflated goals; U.S. Commerce Secretary Gina Raimondo boldly proclaimed a goal of 20% of the world’s leading-edge chips just in February, which is now expected to be far exceeded.
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