CHIPS Act

To help companies create their workforce development plans as part of the CHIPS Act funding application, we created the SEMI Foundation Workforce Development and DEI Menu of Services – packages of workforce development programs currently offered by the SEMI Foundation.

Jay Vleeschhouwer, managing director of Griffin Securities, has followed the EDA industry as a leading financial analyst for 25 years and is a popular speaker at the annual Design Automation Conference. Vleeschhouwer discusses his DAC presentation The State of EDA: A View from Wall Street.

The Department of Commerce will spend $10B over a five-year period to establish “20 geographically distributed regional technology and innovation hubs.” These regional hubs will attract public and private investment capable of vitalizing or revitalizing the Silicon cities of the future.

Charles Shi, Principal, Senior Analyst, Needham & Company, LLC., recently offered an upbeat assessment of the electronic design automation (EDA), silicon intellectual property (IP) and services industries, or what SEMI refers to as the electronic system design (ESD) ecosystem.

In this article, several experts weigh in on considerations for developing the smart manufacturing workforce that will help to alleviate the U.S. semiconductor manufacturing talent shortage, even as multiple, data-intensive $1 billion to $10 billion fabrication facilities come online.