President Biden visits Chandler to promote $8.5B Intel funding
THE ASSOCIATED PRESS
Posted 3/20/24
President Joe Biden was in Chandler on Wednesday to celebrate an agreement to provide Intel with up to $8.5 billion in direct funding and $11 billion in loans for computer chip plants around …
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President Biden visits Chandler to promote $8.5B Intel funding
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President Joe Biden was at Intel's Ocotillo campus in Chandler on Wednesday, March 20.
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THE ASSOCIATED PRESS
President Joe Biden was in Chandler on Wednesday to celebrate an agreement to provide Intel with up to $8.5 billion in direct funding and $11 billion in loans for computer chip plants around the country.
The Biden administration has predicted that the cash infusion should help the U.S. boost its global share of advanced chip production from zero to 20%.
The Democratic president highlighted the investment while visiting Intel’s Ocotillo campus in Chandler where he inspected silicon wafers and expressed amazement at how thin the chips were.
In remarks after the tour, Biden pivoted to the impact his policies could have on the U.S. economy as he tries to translate his policy wins into a political boost ahead of November’s election.
Intel plans to invest in facilities in Arizona, Ohio, Oregon and New Mexico, with some of the government money helping to support workforce development.
“This isn’t just about investing in America,” Biden said, “It’s about investing in the American people as well.”
Commerce Secretary Gina Raimondo said the deal reached through her department would put the United States in a position to produce 20% of the world’s most advanced chips by 2030, up from zero.
U.S. firms design advanced chips, but the inability to make them domestically has emerged as a national security and economic risk.
“Failure is not an option — leading-edge chips are the core of our innovation system, especially when it comes to advances in artificial intelligence and our military systems,” Raimondo said on a call with reporters. “We can’t just design chips. We have to make them in America.”
His message is a direct challenge to former President Donald Trump, the presumptive Republican nominee, who raised tariffs while in the White House and wants to do so again on the promise of protecting U.S. factory jobs from China.
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