GlobalWafers Co., a Taiwanese manufacturer of silicon wafers used in chip production, is in line to receive $400 million in US government help for projects in Texas and Missouri.

What Happened: The grant will facilitate the establishment of the first high-volume U.S. production of 300-mm wafers for advanced semiconductors and expand silicon-on-insulator wafer production.

WASHINGTON (dpa-AFX) - The U.S. Department of Commerce has awarded funding worth $406 million to two companies to boost the domestic production of silicon wafers in the United States.The funding ...

Wolfspeed CEO on $750M CHIPS grant, domestic chip production. Josh Lipton and Julie Hyman . Tue, Oct 15, 2024, ... That is the world's first and largest 200 mm silicon carbide wafer fab.

Two U.S. tech firms soon could build manufacturing facilities to produce 300mm silicon wafers that are critical to the nation's global technology leadership, thanks to a $400M investment announced ...

Wolfspeed is set to receive $750 million in government grants for its new North Carolina silicon carbide wafer manufacturing plant facility, the U.S. Commerce Department said Tuesday, sending the ...

The US Department of Commerce has signed a non-binding preliminary memorandum of terms (PMT) to provide Taiwanese silicon wafer supplier GlobalWafers with up to $400 million in proposed direct ...

REC Silicon is shutting a polysilicon plant in Moses Lake, Washington, that has struggled to achieve customers’ quality requirements. The plant is one of only a few in the US that manufactures ...