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FACT SHEET: Biden-Harris 

Administration Announces Over $5

Billion from the CHIPS and 

Science Act for Research, 

Development, and Workforce 

The Administration will invest billions in the National Semiconductor Technology Center 

(NSTC), now formally established as a public-private consortium, and other CHIPS Research 

and Development (R&D) priorities to support and extend U.S. leadership in semiconductor 

research, design, engineering, advanced manufacturing, and workforce development

Today, the Biden-Harris Administration announced it expects to invest over $5 billion in

semiconductor-related research, development, and workforce needs, including in the National 

Semiconductor Technology Center (NSTC), to advance President Biden’s goals of driving R&D in 

the United States. As part of the implementation of the CHIPS and Science Act and the 

President’s Investing in America agenda, these investments advance U.S. leadership in 

semiconductor R&D, cut down on the time and cost of commercializing new technologies, 

support U.S. national security and access to key technologies, and connect and support workers 

in securing good-semiconductor jobs. 

Semiconductors were invented in America and serve as the backbone of the modern economy. 

But today, the United States produces less than 10 percent of global supply and none of the 

most advanced chips. Similarly, investments in domestic R&D have fallen to less than 1 percent 

of GDP from 2 percent in the mid-1960s at the peak of the space race. Under President Biden’s 

Investing in America agenda, the CHIPS and Science Act aims to change that by making a 

historic investment in U.S. semiconductor manufacturing, research and development (R&D), 

and workforce. The CHIPS R&D program includes $11 billion in total funding to advance four 

programs: the NSTC; the National Advanced Packaging Manufacturing Program (NAPMP); the

CHIPS Metrology Program; and the CHIPS Manufacturing USA Institute. The NSTC, as the 

centerpiece of the CHIPS R&D program, will bring together government, industry, labor, 
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customers, suppliers, educational institutions, entrepreneurs, and investors to accelerate the 

pace of new innovations, lower barriers to participation in semiconductor R&D, and directly 

address fundamental needs for a skilled, diverse semiconductor workforce. 

Today, the White House hosted research and development and workforce convenings with 

senior Administration leadership, industry, academia, think tanks, state and local government, 

and labor, where the Biden-Harris Administration announced several milestones that will drive 

U.S. leadership in cutting-edge semiconductor research and development, including:

Building the National Semiconductor Technology Center

• Expected $5 billion investment in the NSTC, now formally established as a PublicPrivate Consortium by the Secretaries of Commerce, Defense, and Energy, the Director 

of the National Science Foundation, and Natcast CEO Deirdre Hanford. The NSTC will 

ensure the U.S. leads the way in the next generation of semiconductor technologies by

supporting the design, prototyping, and piloting of the latest semiconductor 

technologies; leveraging shared facilities and expertise to ensure innovators have access 

to critical capabilities; and building and sustaining a skilled and diverse semiconductor 

workforce.

• Announcing research priorities for the NSTC for 2024, including identifying early start 

research programs.

• Launching the NSTC Community of Interest, a zero-cost, pre-membership program, for 

interested stakeholders to provide input into the anticipated membership structure and 

program offerings of the NSTC.

Investing in the Semiconductor Workforce

• Expected investments of hundreds of millions in the NSTC’s workforce efforts, 

including the creation of a Workforce Center of Excellence with a presence in multiple 

regions. The Center of Excellence will build on the Administration’s efforts to create 

equitable training pathways to connect Americans to the good-paying, high quality jobs

in critical industries of the future created by the President’s Investing in America 

Agenda, including work done through the Biden-Harris Administration’s Workforce Hubs 

and Advanced Manufacturing Sprint. It will leverage workforce investments made by 

industry, academia, and other education and workforce partners and:

o Convene stakeholders, facilitating connections between employers and

education and training providers, such as community and technical colleges, 

workforce development boards, and registered apprenticeship programs; 

o Use data to measure the success of existing programs and to guide future 

investment; scale up proven education and training programs; and 
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o Pilot new efforts, including initiatives to engage underserved communities. 

o Additional activities could include synthesizing semiconductor education and 

training to form a common baseline education program, launching campaigns to 

attract new students and workers to the semiconductor industry, developing 

new training methodologies, and accelerating access to educational resources.

• Continuing to engage a broad set of stakeholders to guide the stand-up of the NSTC’s 

workforce activities, with the goal of launching them in summer 2024. The NSTC’s 

workforce activities will engage senior leadership from the National Science 

Foundation, Department of Defense, Department of Energy, Department of Labor, and 

Department of Education, along with other federal agencies, to ensure the NSTC 

benefits from expertise across the government, in addition to industry, academia, labor, 

workforce training providers, and other experts.

Investing in Other Key R&D Needs

• Commerce released a Notice of Intent to invest at least $200 million in a CHIPS 

Manufacturing USA Institute to create a first-of-its-kind semiconductor manufacturing 

digital twin institute, which will allow innovators to replicate and experiment with 

physical manufacturing processes at low cost, with the goal of significantly reducing U.S. 

chip development and manufacturing costs, improving development cycle time, and 

accelerating the adoption of innovation semiconductor manufacturing technologies.

• Commerce released a Notice of Intent to fund up to $300 million in new R&D activities 

in advanced packaging of substrates and substrate materials, a key technology for 

manufacturing semiconductors, to improve all aspects of system performance and

support the breadth of new semiconductor applications.

• Commerce has awarded over $100 million in funding across 29 projects in the CHIPS 

Metrology program addressing common needs across the microelectronic industry. 

Current projects are helping to develop new measurement instruments, measurement 

methods, and measurement-informed models and simulations for advanced 

microelectronics design and manufacturing, all of which will help inventors and 

entrepreneurs more easily scale innovations into commercial products.

Today’s announcements build on the progress the Administration has already made in 

advancing research, development, and innovation in the United States. Last week, the White 

House and the National Science Foundation announced 10 U.S. regions that are emerging as 

innovation ecosystems and receiving over $530 million in investment catalyzed by the 

National Science Foundation’s Regional Innovation Engines program, including to support 

advanced semiconductor packaging capabilities in Osceola County, Florida. Over the last several 

months, the Biden-Harris Administration also officially designated a new nonprofit, the National 
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Center for the Advancement of Semiconductor Technology (Natcast), as the operator of the 

NSTC, and announced the selection of a Board of Directors and a CEO. And, in the fall of 2023, 

the Administration announced the designation of 31 Regional Tech Hubs, which were 

authorized by the CHIPS and Science Act, including hubs in New York, Oregon, Vermont, Texas, 

and Oklahoma that will specifically focus on spurring and supporting innovation in 

semiconductor manufacturing.