A global shortage of semiconductors has policymakers wondering how government can work with industry to spur production. Such collaboration has possible precedent in the 1987 launch of Sematech, a consortium that revitalized the U.S. chipmaking industry. In this episode of MITRE Engenuity’s Circuit Talk, Dr. Nadia Schadlow and Pavneet Singh sit down with, Dan Armbrust, the co-founder and director of Silicon Catalyst, a semiconductor incubator, to discuss the launch of Sematech and the partnership between the U.S. government and the semiconductor industry that led to its creation.
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Podcast: A guide to public-private collaboration in chipmaking
July 2, 2021