Chip industry makes pitch for $50bn to keep manufacturing in US
China’s government is pouring money into its domestic semiconductor industry, says lobby group
16 September 2020 - 18:10
San Francisco — The US chip industry said it needs as much as $50bn in federal incentives to halt a decades-long trend of manufacturing moving overseas as China spends heavily to become a leading semiconductor producer.
The federal government needs to deploy $20bn to $50bn to make the US as attractive a location for plants as Taiwan, China, South Korea, Singapore, Israel and parts of Europe, the Semiconductor Industry Association (SIA) said in a study released Wednesday. Failure to do that threatens US leadership of the sector as a whole, it added...
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