"U.S. Prioritizes 'Chiplets' for Tech Advancement"

Chiplets, a way to design chips for higher performance, has become an essential tool for progress in semiconductors. The United States accounts for only 3% of chip packaging, which is overwhelmingly dominated by companies in Asia. The CHIPS Act, a $52 billion subsidy package, aims to reinvigorate domestic chip making by providing money to build more sophisticated factories called “fabs” and stoking advanced packaging factories in the United States to capture more of that essential process. Assembling all the elements required to reduce U.S. dependence on Asian companies is a huge challenge.