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U.S. Awards $120 Million to Polar Semiconductor to Expand Chip Facility

✇NYT: Technology
By: Madeleine Ngo
13 May 2024 at 05:01
The grant is the latest federal award in a series stemming from the CHIPS and Science Act meant to ramp up domestic production of vital semiconductors.

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The federal award will go toward a project to expand the Polar Semiconductor facility in Bloomington, Minn.

Micron Will Receive $6.1 Billion to Build Semiconductor Plants

✇NYT: Technology
By: Madeleine Ngo and Don Clark
18 April 2024 at 13:59
The grant to the memory chipmaker is the latest federal award aimed at boosting U.S. chip manufacturing.

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Micron officials have said the investment is expected to create roughly 50,000 jobs, including about 9,000 direct positions at its plants.

Biden Administration Awards Samsun $6.4 Billion for Chip Production

✇NYT: Technology
By: Madeleine Ngo and Don Clark
15 April 2024 at 11:12
The federal grants will support Samsung’s new chip manufacturing hub in Taylor, Texas, along with the expansion of an existing site in Austin.

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The money will help Samsung to upgrade a plant under construction in Taylor, Texas.

Herbert Kroemer, 95, Dies; Laid Groundwork for Modern Technologies

✇NYT: Science
By: Dylan Loeb McClain
9 April 2024 at 12:22
He shared a Nobel Prize in Physics for discoveries that paved the way for high-speed internet communication, mobile phones and bar-code readers.

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Herbert Kroemer in 2000, when he was awarded a Nobel Prize in Physics for his contributions to the development of so-called heterostructures.

TSMC Will Receive $6.6 Billion to Bolster U.S. Chip Manufacturing

✇NYT: Technology
By: Madeleine Ngo and Don Clark
8 April 2024 at 14:47
Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Company plans to build an additional factory and upgrade another planned facility in Phoenix with the federal grants.

© T.J. Kirkpatrick for The New York Times

A new Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Company plant under construction in Phoenix, Ariz., in December 2022.
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