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2022 US law providing subsidies and tax credits to boost domestic semiconductor manufacturing and funding broader science and technology research.
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Planetary scientist Mark Sykes rebuilt 15 years of NASA research and analysis spending from FOIA data and found it flat, down 30% in real value since FY2011. He says the shortfall is costing NASA scientists and ideas, a claim his dollar figures support only indirectly.
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The Indiana plant broke ground in August with a clean room due by October 2028 and next-generation HBM in mass production the following year, which leaves anyone specifying memory for a 2027 product buying from today's lines.
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Arizona is about to lose more than a quarter of its Colorado River draw while TSMC and Intel build fabs that need millions of gallons a day. The reported pressure so far is on price and on who pays to replace the water.
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The Commerce award is the only contracted dollar figure Quantinuum put on the page, and the two onshore manufacturing partners it named, GlobalFoundries and Monarch Quantum, arrive without volumes, dates or contract values.
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In Foreign Affairs, the former director of Biden's National Economic Council argues Washington has an elaborate apparatus for refusing inbound capital and almost no route to approving it. The two federal measures it names are still proposals.
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A 24-page national security science strategy calls brain-computer interfaces and digital assets critical technologies. Open weights and open-source development appear nowhere in it.
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