A global shortage of semiconductors has policymakers wondering how government can work with industry to spur production. Such collaboration has possible precedent in the 1987 launch of Sematech, a consortium that revitalized the U.S. chipmaking industry. In this episode of MITRE Engenuity’s Circuit Talk, Dr. Nadia Schadlow and Pavneet Singh sit down with, Dan Armbrust, the co-founder and director of Silicon Catalyst, a semiconductor incubator, to discuss the launch of Sematech and the partnership between the U.S. government and the semiconductor industry that led to its creation.
Podcast: A guide to public-private collaboration in chipmaking (brookings.edu)
A 300mm wafer manufactured by the Japanese firm Fuijitsu is displayed on May 14, 2019, in Tokyo, Japan. (Photo by Yoshio Tsunoda/AFLO)
