美国大举投资芯片产业

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Don Clark and Ana Swanson, 美国大举投资芯片产业，但光靠金钱可能不够.
https://cn.nytimes.com/technolog ... aking-china-invest/

, which is translated from

Don Clark and Ana Swanson, Watching China, US Pours Cash into Chip-Making; A cold war in tech; Ramp-up is no silver bullet in push to cut foreign supplies. New York Times, Jan 2, 2022, at (top of) page A1.

Note:
(a) "the efforts [$76 billion from CHIPS Act] constitute the largest US investment in manufacturing arguably since World War II, when [during which] the federal government unleashed spending on new ships, pipelines and factories to make aluminum and rubber."

(b) "Daniel Armbrust, the former chief executive of Sematech, a now-defunct chip consortium formed in 1987 with the Defense Department and funding from member companies."
(i) SEMATECH
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SEMATECH
(" (from Semiconductor Manufacturing Technology) is a not-for-profit consortium that performs research and development to advance chip manufacturing. * * * The group is funded by member dues * * * SEMATECH was funded over five years by public subsidies coming from the U.S. Department of Defense via the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) for a total of $500 million.  Following a determination by SEMATECH Board of Directors to eliminate matching funds from the US government after 1996, the organization's focus shifted from the US semiconductor industry to the larger international semiconductor industry, abandoning the initial US government-initiative")
(ii) SEMATECH was "formed in 1987, and began operating in Austin, Texas in 1988" and sometimes later somehow moved to Albany, New York, says this Wiki page. Amazingly, this Wiki page throughout uses present tense to describe SEMATECH. But SEMATECH "was absorbed into SUNY Polytechnic Institute" (1966- ; public university) in 2015. Larry Rulison, Head of Sematech consortium gone from SUNY Poly. Albany, NY: Times Union, Feb 3, 2017.
SEMATECH - An Oral History; An interview with Dave Anderson. The Virtual Museum of Semiconductors, June 16, 1992
https://www.chiphistory.org/120-sematech-an-oral-history
("Annexure [interviewer]: SEMATECH started as a 50:50 joint venture between the US Government and the Chip Making Industry. The government has long since dropped out and today this organization goes it alone")

(c) "At the TSMC event in December, [2022,] Mr Biden also highlighted the potential impact on tech companies like Apple that rely on TSMC for their chip-making needs. He said that 'it could be a game changer' as more of these companies 'bring more of their supply chain home.' "

I think it is silly in the example of Apple. Apple assembles its gadgets abroad (used to be in China, which now can not because US bars export of advanced chips to China -- even for assembly work).

(d) In contrast, TSMC's factories in Taiwan at the end of 2022 began producing three-nanometer technology [量产: Dec 29, 2022]. By 2025, factories in Taiwan will probably start supplying Apple with two-nanometer chips, said Handel Jones, chief executive at International Business Strategies[Inc (IBS); a consultancy based in Los Gatos (in Silicon Valley), California]."

(e) "Domestic factories [in US] produce only about 4 percent pf the world's memory chips"

South Korea makes world's most memory chips.

(f) "urdue University, which built a new semiconductor laboratory, has set a goal of graduating 1,000 engineers each year and has attracted the chip maker SkyWater Technology to build a $1.8 billion manufacturing plant near its Indiana campus."
SkyWater Technology
(i) SkyWater Technology
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SkyWater_Technology
(is "based in Bloomington [10 miles south of Minneapolis: Wikipedia], Minnesota.  It is the only US-owned pure-play silicon foundry.  The company was formed in 2017, when [外行] private equity firm Oxbow Industries acquired Cypress Foundry Solutions, a microelectronics fabricator that was previously a subsidiary of California-based Cypress Semiconductor Corp. * * * On July 20th, 2022 Skywater announces plans to invest 1.8 Billion dollars [too little!] into a manufacturing facility in West Lafayette, Indiana. The facility is within Purdue University's Discovery Park District, * * * SkyWater produces semiconductor chips using 90-nanometer process technology on equipment designed to handle 200-millimeter wafers of silicon")
(ii)
(A) Also located at Discovery Park District is Purdue University Birck Nanotechnology Center (BNC (the first building in Discovery Park District); 2005- ). which has Scifres Nanofabrication Laboratory (2006- (built with $10 million then); the largest academic cleanroom in the world)
https://www.purdue.edu/discoverypark/birck/facilities/scifres.php
(B) Purdue Launches Discovery Park, Nanotechnology Center. Purdue News, November 2001
https://www.purdue.edu/uns/html4 ... overy.allinone.html

Quote:

• "urdue University has announced it will build a $100 million Discovery Park and already has raised $51 million for the first building, the Birck Nanotechnology Center, which will be among the best of its kind in the nation. * * * The September [2011] event, which included a ceremonial groundbreaking * * * Construction on the three-floor, 71,000-square-foot nanotechnology building is expected to begin in July and be completed in the summer of 2004. * * *  

• "In addition to the state money, the new facility is being funded by $43 million from two couples.

"Michael and Katherine (Kay) Birck, of Hinsdale, Ill., for whom the facility is named, have donated $30 million. Michael Birck is chairman of Tellabs Inc., which develops and manufactures special telecommunications equipment and is based in Lisle, Ill. A Purdue alumnus and a member of the Purdue Board of Trustees, Michael Birck is a native of Clinton, Ind. Kay Birck, a native of Terre Haute, Ind., is head of nursing at Women's Healthcare of Hinsdale.

"urdue alumni Donald and Carol Scifres, gave $10 million. Donald Scifres, is a Silicon Valley entrepreneur. An electrical engineer, he holds more than 130 patents and is co-chairman of the board and chief strategy officer of JDS Uniphase Corp., an optical communications company in San Jose, Calif. In recognition of their gift, Purdue will name a wing of the new nanotechnology facility after Donald Scifres' father, Ray, who was a member of Purdue's electrical engineering staff for 35 years before retiring in 1975. Donald and Carol Scifres are both Greater Lafayette area natives.

(C) National and Indiana Officials Take Tour of Purdue's Birck Nanotechnology Center. Journal & Courier, Sept 13, 2022 (online photo gallery)
https://www.jconline.com/picture ... ipment/10366229002/
("US Secretary of Commerce Gina Raimondo, US Secretary of State Antony Blinken, Indiana Gov Eric Holcomb and US Senator Todd Young [R-Ind] take a tour")
• Journal & Courier
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Journal_%26_Courier
("is a daily newspaper owned by Gannett, serving Lafayette [where the newspaper is based], Indiana, and the surrounding communities. It was established in 1920 through the merger of two local papers
(D) Why tour an old facility?

Nearly $11M in Additional DOD Funds Expands Purdue-Led Microelectronics Workforce Program. Purdue University, Sept 26, 2022
https://www.purdue.edu/newsroom/ ... kforce-program.html
("urdue University announced Sept 16 the SCALE (Scalable Asymmetric Lifecycle Engagement) microelectronics workforce development program will extend five years and expand with additional Department of Defense funding of $10.8 million, and a ceiling of $99 million. * * * Led by Purdue, funded by the Department of Defense and managed by NSWC Crane, SCALE facilitates a different approach to training highly skilled US microelectronics engineers, hardware designers and manufacturing experts")

• NSWC Crane stands for Naval Surface Warfare Center Crane Division.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Na ... nter_Crane_Division
(E) Amy Raley, Chen Named Director of Purdue's Birck Nanotechnology Center. Purdue University, Dec 21, 2022
https://www.purdue.edu/research/ ... otechnology-center/

I fail to find the Chinese name of Prof Zhihong Chen.

(g) "Mitch Daniels, who was president of Purdue at the time

Mitch Daniels
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mitch_Daniels
(1949- ; "A Republican, Daniels served as the 49th governor of Indiana from 2005 to 2013, and president of Purdue University from 2013 until the end of 2022")