semiconductor chips News Updates

“I can’t say that I can honor something I haven’t read,” Howard Lutnick, Trump’s nominee for commerce secretary, said of the binding CHIPS Act awards in a confirmation hearing Jan. 29.

The U.S. Department of Commerce announced Jan. 6 that Arizona has been selected for the third of three CHIPS for America research and development flagship facilities.

WASHINGTON — The 2022 CHIPS and Science Act will “sharply increase production’’ of semiconductors in the United States. But it will do so at a high cost, concludes a report.

President-elect Donald Trump is likely to maintain new U.S. limits on global sales of AI chips by Nvidia Corp. and others, a top Biden administration official said.

WASHINGTON — The Biden administration is proposing a new framework for the exporting of the advanced computer chips used to develop artificial intelligence.

Texas Instruments announced a tranche of federal CHIPS and Science Act funding worth up to $1.6 billion, a show of support for a booming semiconductor manufacturing industry in North Texas.

President Joe Biden’s administration is set to initiate a trade investigation into Chinese semiconductors in the coming days, as part of a push to reduce reliance on a technology that U.S. officials believe pose national security risks.

The Biden administration has reached a final agreement to give Micron Corp. nearly $6.2 billion in subsidies from a program designed to boost American semiconductor manufacturing.

The Biden administration has finalized a multibillion-dollar award for TSMC. made possible by the CHIPS and Science Act, marking a major milestone for the program.   

The Biden administration is racing to complete CHIPS Act agreements, aiming to shore up one of its signature initiatives before President-elect Donald Trump enters the White House.