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  • CHIPS Act leaves chipmakers facing choice between U.S. and China

    08/02/2022 4:33:42 AM PDT · by FarCenter · 35 replies
    Chipmakers are cheering Washington's long-awaited passage of a bill to provide funding for the U.S. semiconductor industry, but accepting those subsidies could tie their hands when it comes to future investments in China. Is it a price that the likes of Intel, TSMC and Samsung will be willing to pay? The CHIPS and Science Act, a $280 billion package passed by both houses of Congress last week, contains $52 billion in support for the semiconductor industry. But it also specifies that companies accepting federal subsidies will be restricted from making any "significant transaction" to materially expand their chipmaking capacity in...