The entire microelectronics ecosystem needs to be rebuilt
, Facebook and SpaceX are looking for domestic [substrate supplies] for AR and VR systems. They’re not finding them.”
“Our trade association thinks it would take someone six years to start a circuit board company from scratch with the expertise currently available,” Brassard observes. “Circuit boards are hard to make. There’s a lot of chemistry, lithography, CNC machining.”... [+]Calumet Electronics “The know-how we have, the prototypes are coming off the line,” Calumet’s CTO, Dr. Meredith Labeau, says. “The struggle is how quick can we get capitalization to scale? Scaling requires money.”
Finding capital is no problem in Asia, and hasn’t been for four decades, says Chris Toffales, chairman and managing director of CTC Aero LLC, an aerospace and defense consultancy firm. He is also the chairman of a three-year, 60-person microelectronics study commissioned by former Undersecretary of Defense Ellen Lord.
Back in the 1980s, the Japanese government essentially agreed to finance 30 percent to 40 percent of the cost of constructing foundries and acquiring capital equipment, which cost several billion dollars to get up and running. Non-Japanese companies including American electronics manufacturers and integrators took note. They could build new dedicated facilities in Japan for two-thirds to half the cost of building them here.Today, China is offering a similar deal.
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