US government frets about domestic chip sector amid continued shortages

A report by the US Department of Commerce warns the global chip shortage isn’t going away anytime soon, so the US needs to ramp up its domestic production.
In response to global microchip supply chain issues which have impacted countless sectors over the past few years, the US Department of Commerce launched a ‘Request for Information’ in September. This was essentially a process of speaking to around 150 firms, including ‘nearly every major semiconductor producer and fro