Broadband Breakfast on June 14, 2023 – Unpacking the CHIPS and Science Act

Amid supply chain constraints and a hostile technological race with China, will the legislation be successful?

Broadband Breakfast on June 14, 2023 – Unpacking the CHIPS and Science Act
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Wednesday, June 14, 2023 – Unpacking the CHIPS and Science Act

The CHIPS and Science Act provides $280 billion in funding for domestic research and manufacturing of semiconductors — key components of consumer electronics, military systems and countless other applications. Amid complex supply chain constraints and an increasingly hostile technological race with China, will this ambitious legislation prove successful?

Panelists for the June 14 preview event:

  • Martijn Rasser, Managing Director, Datenna
  • Jacob Feldgoise, Data Research Analyst, Center for Security and Emerging Technology, Georgetown University
  • Hannah Kelley, Research Assistant, Technology and National Security Program at the Center for a New American Security
  • Drew Clark (moderator), Editor and Publisher, Broadband Breakfast

This Broadband Breakfast Live Online session will preview the upcoming Made in America Summit, taking place on Tuesday, June 27 in Washington.

Don’t miss the recent Broadband Breakfast Report, “Impacts of the CHIPS and Science Act of 2022”:

The increasingly hostile technology race between the United States and China now revolves around the key to the modern economy: semiconductors. Semiconductors are the microprocessors that power smartphones and washing machines and automobiles. Indeed, these chips are needed in advanced weaponry and artificial intelligence. That places them at the focal point of international tension.

Simply put, semiconductors are the world’s new oil.

And, as both President Joe Biden and Commerce Secretary Gina Raimondo have been quick to note, American ingenuity invented the semiconductor. But today, the U.S. currently produces only 12 percent of the world’s supply, none of which are the most advanced. This is down from 40 percent in 1990.

The technology and machinery needed to create the most advanced semiconductor chips is so complex and sophisticated that the world’s supply is manufactured by only a handful of companies.

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Martijn Rasser is managing director of Datenna, an open-source intelligence company, where he manages the company’s U.S. operations. He was previously a senior fellow and director of the Technology and National Security Program at the Center for a New American Security. Prior to joining CNAS, he served as a senior intelligence officer and analyst at the Central Intelligence Agency, where he worked on foreign emerging technologies, technology innovation, and weapons research and development.

Jacob Feldgoise is a data research analyst at Georgetown’s Center for Security and Emerging Technology. His research interests include U.S.-China technology competition, emerging technologies talent flows, and China’s foreign influence. Currently, his work focuses on semiconductor supply chains, export controls, and China’s domestic AI workforce.

Hannah Kelley is a Research Assistant with the Technology and National Security Program at the Center for a New American Security  where she focuses on biotechnology, U.S. national technology strategy, and international coordination on responsible technology use. Before joining CNAS, Kelley interned for both the International Trade Administration at the U.S. Department of Commerce (Atlanta) and the Permanent Observer Mission of the Holy See to the United Nations, covering the Mission’s Security Council portfolio. Kelley received both her master of international policy and her bachelor of arts in international affairs from the University of Georgia.

Drew Clark (moderator) is CEO of Breakfast Media LLC. He has led the Broadband Breakfast community since 2008. An early proponent of better broadband, better lives, he initially founded the Broadband Census crowdsourcing campaign for broadband data. As Editor and Publisher, Clark presides over the leading media company advocating for higher-capacity internet everywhere through topical, timely and intelligent coverage. Clark also served as head of the Partnership for a Connected Illinois, a state broadband initiative.

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