CHIPS Incentives Program - Facilities for Semiconductor Materials and Manufacturing Equipment
Funds building or upgrading US facilities that make semiconductor materials or chip-making equipment.
The CHIPS Incentives Program funds projects that build, expand, or modernize U.S. commercial facilities that make semiconductor materials or semiconductor manufacturing equipment — not chip fabrication plants themselves, which this program funds under a separate notice. NIST's CHIPS Program Office runs the award, and Grants.gov lists it as a cooperative agreement, so the agency stays involved duri…
Building, expanding, or modernizing U.S. commercial facilities that make semiconductor materials (like the chemicals, gases, and substrates used to fabricate chips) or semiconductor manufacturing equipment (the machines and tools used to make them) — not chip fabrication plants themselves.
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