The Biden administration is taking applications for $285 million in federal funding — allotted from the $280 billion CHIPS and Science Act — seeking companies to “establish and operate a CHIPS Manufacturing USA institute focused on digital twins for the semiconductor industry.”
The plan for the CHIPS Manufacturing USA institute to establish a “regionally diverse” network to share resources with companies developing and manufacturing both physical semiconductors and digital twins. Digital twins are virtual representations of physical chips that mimic the real version and make it easier to test new processors before they’re put into production to find out how they might react to a boost in power or a different data configuration.
