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Much has been said about the desire for many major global economies, the U.S. included, to decouple their supply chains from China. One of the most visible examples of this is the adoption of the CHIPS and Science Act in August 2022. The crux of this legislation is to provide roughly $280 billion in new…
After the election, one of the first executive orders from President Joe Biden was dedicated to analyzing U.S. supply chains to see how his administration could help boost domestic production, especially for electronic components and semiconductors which overwhelmingly are produced in Taiwan and, to a lesser extent, China. Earlier this year, the U.S. government took…
Sometimes it’s the smallest things that have the largest impact. This is the story of the supply chain woes still being felt in the runup to the 2022 holiday season, with one of the largest struggles being the crippling supply of low-end legacy chips, sometimes known colloquially as “penny chips”. These chips can cost anywhere…
Semiconductors today now play a critical role in nearly every major industry in some form or another. And as supplier inventories have remained scarce, these industries ranging from automotive to healthcare to consumer electronics have felt the repercussions. Not immune to these repercussions are the chipmakers themselves, who across the board are seeing significant losses…
If there was any hope that the electronic component and semiconductor markets are on the upswing, many of those hopes were squashed in a recent CNBC interview with Intel CEO Pat Gelsinger. According to Gelsinger, he expects the semiconductor industry to face supply chain shortages until at least 2024. Gelsinger’s comments come following the release…
In the wake of the Ukraine crisis, as well as the ongoing geopolitical tensions with China and the continued supply chain issues related to the COVID-19 pandemic, the U.S. is prioritizing semiconductor manufacturing on its own soil more than ever. Indeed, President Biden in his State of the Union address highlighted his push for new…