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Research

Increase Federal Investment in Semiconductor Research

Research is the lifeblood of innovation. Funding for scientific research has enabled some of the most revolutionary inventions of the last 60 years, including the Internet, the Global Positioning System (GPS), the laser, and the large-scale integrated circuit.

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For decades, federal government and private sector investments in semiconductor research and development (R&D) have propelled the rapid pace of innovation in the U.S. semiconductor industry, making it the global leader and spurring tremendous growth throughout the U.S. economy. This report analyzes the impact of federal investments in semiconductor R&D on U.S. economic growth, job creation, and our country’s technology leadership.

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Unfortunately, U.S. investments in R&D as a share of GDP have been on the decline, while other countries around the globe are doubling down on these critical investments. Policymakers should reverse this trend by supporting funding for basic scientific research programs at federal agencies such as the National Science Foundation (NSF), the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST), the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA), and the Department of Energy (DOE) Office of Science.

Long-term fundamental science research performed at universities and funded by the industry and the federal government is critical to sustaining the pipeline of new discoveries that will fuel the semiconductor industry, our nation’s economy and new job creation in America. Today, with increasingly fierce competition for global technology leadership, it’s critical that research collaborations be maintained and strengthened, not undermined.

Semiconductor Industry's Commitment to Research

The U.S. semiconductor industry is a strong partner in research investments, devoting $36 billion to R&D in 2017, among the highest shares of revenue of any industry.

The semiconductor industry also has a longstanding tradition of partnering with government and universities to establish effective research programs. In the 1980s, the industry teamed with government to create SEMATECH, which sponsors advanced semiconductor manufacturing research and has been recognized by many as the ideal model of public-private collaboration.

The industry also helps fund cutting edge university research through the Semiconductor Research Corporation (SRC), the world’s leading university research consortium for semiconductors and related technologies. SRC has launched hugely successful government-industry-university research partnerships – most recently, the nanoelectronic COmputing REsearch (nCORE) and the Joint University Microelectronics Program (JUMP) in collaboration with NSF, NIST, and DARPA.

nanoelectronic COmputing REsearch (nCORE)

The nCORE program is funded by leading semiconductor companies to support collaborative university research in the U.S. to develop key technologies to enable novel computing and storage paradigms with long-term impact on the semiconductor, electronics, computing, and defense industries. It is driven by fundamental research on new materials and devices with the potential to achieve significantly improved efficiency, enhanced performance, and new functionalities, beyond the capability of conventional CMOS technologies. nCORE is a new program built upon the Nanoelectronics Research Initiative (NRI). NIST has provided deep technical expertise and substantial financial support for the NRI program. Nanoelectronics research requires innovative metrology and characterization technology; therefore, NIST is a critical partner for the semiconductor industry in the nCORE program.

Joint University Microelectronics Program (JUMP)

The mission of JUMP is to look beyond today’s technology horizon and lay the scientific groundwork that extends the viability of Moore’s Law economics through 2040. This program must create new general purpose architectures and system designs that relax device constraints and provide opportunities for new device types and novel, heterogeneous integration solutions. It must invent new devices and designs that are capable of the performance achievable today at a power consumption that is 1-3 orders of magnitude lower. Finally, it must train tomorrow’s workforce to deliver “smart, autonomous, safe, connected, efficient, and affordable” electronics that meet our sensing, actuation, communication, computing, and storage needs for 2025 and beyond. In addition to providing enabling technologies, the research scope for each Center represents a critical component in the development of systems for both the semiconductor and defense industries and the Department of Defense.

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The U.S. semiconductor industry is the worldwide leader with nearly half of global market share.
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The industry directly employs over 307,000 people in the U.S. and supports more than 1.7 million additional U.S. jobs.
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Semiconductors are a top U.S. export after refined oil, crude oil, natural gas, and civilian aircraft.
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The U.S. industry invests about one-fifth of revenue in R&D on average, among the most of any sector.

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