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Winning
the future.

A Blueprint for Sustained U.S. Leadership
in Semiconductor Technology

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Invest in research

Incentivize domestic manufacturing

Attract and develop a skilled workforce

Ensure access to global markets and protect IP

Semiconductors — the tiny chips that enable modern technologies — are critical to America’s economy, job creation, technology leadership, and national security. For 50 years, America has led the world in semiconductor innovation, driving transformative advances in nearly every modern technology, from computers to mobile phones to the Internet itself.

Today, semiconductors underpin the most exciting “must-win” technologies of the future, including artificial intelligence, quantum computing, and advanced wireless networks. To secure America’s leadership in these future technologies for the next 50 years, the United States must continue to lead the world in semiconductor research, design, and manufacturing.

Technology challenges and ambitious steps by foreign governments, however, put at risk continued semiconductor innovation and U.S. leadership in this sector.

The Winning the Future blueprint lays out the ambitious policy actions needed to confront these challenges and help ensure America continues to lead the world in semiconductor technology.

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Four Policies to Ensure U.S. Leadership in Semiconductor Technology

Research

Invest in research that will promote American semiconductor innovation.

 

  • Triple U.S. investments in semiconductor-specific research across federal scientific agencies from approximately $1.5 billion to $5 billion annually to advance new materials, designs, and architectures that will exponentially increase chip performance.

 

  • Double U.S. research investments in semiconductor-related fields such as materials science, computer science, engineering, and applied mathematics across federal scientific agencies to spur leap-ahead innovations in semiconductor technology that will drive key technologies of the future, including artificial intelligence, quantum computing, and advanced wireless networks.

Domestic Manufacturing

Incentivize semiconductor manufacturing in the U.S. to strengthen the defense industrial base, support economic growth, and improve supply chain security.

 

  • Establish a manufacturing grant program to spur construction of new onshore advanced semiconductor manufacturing facilities in the U.S., including leading-edge logic foundries, advanced memory, and analog fabs to supply defense, critical infrastructure, and broader essential commercial needs.

 

  • Provide tax incentives for semiconductor manufacturing, such as a refundable investment tax credit for the purchase of new semiconductor manufacturing equipment.

SIA Immigration & Workforce

Workforce

Attract and develop a skilled workforce that will ensure U.S. leadership in semiconductor research, design, and manufacturing and in the development and implementation of future growth technologies.

 

  • Reform the high-skilled immigration system by eliminating counterproductive caps on green cards so qualified STEM graduates from U.S. colleges and universities, as well as STEM graduates from around the world, can work, innovate, and contribute to U.S. leadership in the semiconductor industry and boost our economy.

 

  • Increase U.S. investments in STEM education by 50 percent and implement a national STEM education initiative to double the number of American STEM graduates by 2029.

 

 

SIA Global Policy & Trade

Trade

Ensure access to global markets and protect intellectual property so the U.S. semiconductor industry can compete, innovate, and grow in the future.

 

  • Approve and modernize free trade agreements, including the United States-Mexico-Canada Agreement, that remove market barriers, protect IP, and enable fair competition.

 

  • Increase resources for law enforcement and intelligence agencies to prevent and prosecute semiconductor intellectual property theft, including the misappropriation of trade secrets.

By implementing these policies, Congress and the Administration can take key steps to protect American leadership in semiconductor technology and win the global competition for the technologies of the future. These initiatives will help steer America toward a future of innovation leadership and economic growth, while also bolstering our national security.

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A Great American Success Story

Semiconductors were invented in America, and the U.S. still leads the world in leading-edge semiconductor research, design, and manufacturing. U.S. semiconductor companies commanded nearly half of the $469 billion global semiconductor market in 2018.

About half of U.S. semiconductor companies’ advanced manufacturing base is in the United States, and 19 states are home to major semiconductor manufacturing facilities. The United States exported $44 billion in semiconductors in 2018 and maintains a consistent trade surplus in semiconductors, with more than 80 percent of U.S. semiconductor companies’ sales going to overseas customers. And about one-fifth of U.S. semiconductor companies’ sales gets plowed back into R&D, driving remarkable semiconductor innovation.

Advancements in semiconductor technology have been measured by “Moore’s Law,” the observation that the number of transistors on an area of silicon will double roughly every 18 to 24 months. For more than 50 years, the ability of the semiconductor industry to maintain this rapid pace of innovation has propelled a technology revolution through massive increases in computing power at lower costs.

To maintain our innovation trajectory for the next 50 years and win the competition for global leadership in the technologies of the future, the U.S. must lead the world in semiconductor innovation.

47%
The U.S. semiconductor industry is the worldwide leader with nearly half of global market share.
1,250,000+
The industry directly employs nearly 250,000 people in the U.S. and supports more than 1 million additional U.S. jobs.
#5
Semiconductors are a top-5 U.S. export along with airplanes, refined oil, crude oil, and automobiles.
1/5
The U.S. industry invests about one-fifth of revenue in R&D, among the most of any sector.

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Semiconductor Research Opportunities: An Industry Vision and Guide
Current and Future Workforce Needs to Support a Strong Domestic Semiconductor Industry

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