Joanne Feeney
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which is where I got my start in the semiconductor industry 20-plus years ago.
And it's a location for collaborative R&D for development of new manufacturing techniques, development of new materials, development of new recipes for designing and building chips.
And all the major players in the industry are there, and it's pre-competitive.
And so for X-Lite and Pat Gelsinger to be doing it there with the support of the federal government sort of –
enhances this model of get some public support for a technology that can be spread and help the industry, broadly speaking, and does go towards this effort to enable more chip equipment design and manufacturing to eventually occur in the United States.
It's going to take a long time.
These programs, as I was involved with back in the early 2000s, they take many years, but it's a great way for the U.S.
to subsidize a general technology, which could ultimately help the U.S.
position in equipment manufacturing.