§4601 — Title 15 Commerce and Trade | U.S. Code

Summary

Congress says it is important for the nation's economy and security that the Department of Defense help pay for a U.S. industry group called Sematech to do research on making semiconductors. The law sets goals to push the U.S. semiconductor industry to study advanced manufacturing methods and to turn manufacturing know-how into ways to make many kinds of semiconductor products. To meet those goals, it creates a grant program to fund Sematech's research. Semiconductor Technology Council: an advisory council. Sematech: a U.S. consortium of semiconductor companies formed to do advanced manufacturing research and develop manufacturing techniques.

Title 15, §4601

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(a)The Congress finds that it is in the national economic and security interests of the United States for the Department of Defense to provide financial assistance to the industry consortium known as Sematech for research and development activities in the field of semiconductor manufacturing technology.

(b)The purposes of this subchapter are—

(1)to encourage the semiconductor industry in the United States—

(A)to conduct research on advanced semiconductor manufacturing techniques; and

(B)to develop techniques to use manufacturing expertise for the manufacture of a variety of semiconductor products; and

(2)in order to achieve the purpose set out in paragraph (1), to provide a grant program for the financial support of semiconductor research activities conducted by Sematech.

(c)In this subchapter:

(1)The terms “Semiconductor Technology Council” and “Council” mean the advisory council established by section 4603 of this title.

(2)The term “Sematech” means a consortium of firms in the United States semiconductor industry established for the purposes of (A) conducting research concerning advanced semiconductor manufacturing techniques, and (B) developing techniques to adapt manufacturing expertise to a variety of semiconductor products.

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Amendments

1993—Subsec. (c)(1). Pub. L. 103–160 substituted “Semiconductor Technology Council” for “Advisory Council on Federal Participation in Sematech”.

§4601 Findings, Purposes, and Definitions

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