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Siliconix was incorporated on March 5, 1962, by husband and wife Frances and Bill Hugle and Richard Lee. [5] [6] The Hugles were well known in the semiconductor industry for the works of their previous companies that specialized in optical encoding and circuit production, [7] including at the Baldwin Piano Company of Cincinnati, Ohio. [8]
Silicon Systems Inc. (SSi) (not to be confused with SiliconSystems, Inc.) was an American semiconductor company based in Tustin, California. The company manufactured mixed-signal integrated circuits and semiconductors for telecommunications and data storage.
Trident Microsystems Inc. was an American [5] fabless semiconductor company that became in the 1990s a well-known supplier of integrated circuits (commonly called "chips") for video display controllers used in video cards and on motherboards for desktop PCs and laptops.
Advanced Micro Devices, Inc. (AMD) is an American multinational corporation and technology company headquartered in Santa Clara, California and maintains significant operations in Austin, Texas. AMD is a hardware and fabless company that designs and develops central processing units (CPUs), graphics processing units (GPUs), field-programmable ...
The act aims to reverse a three-decade decline in American semiconductor manufacturing: The United States produced just 12% of the world’s chips in 2020, down from 37% in 1990.
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In 2022, President Joe Biden signed the CHIPS Act into law, which provided $52.7 billion for American semiconductor research, development, manufacturing, and workforce development.
As semiconductor manufacturing jobs left the country, the American talent base dried up. The shift was only further accelerated by a broader, decades-long decline in skills-based, technical public ...