President Biden signed the bill into law this week

Chips will be used for military applications

Funding awarded under Small Business Innovation Research program

Advanced chips will be used for US defense operations

Tender documents for the Alice Recoque state it will be “replacing Joliot-Curie”

System was most powerful supercomputer in the world when first installed

Job cuts at odds with CHIPS Act aim of growing semiconductor workforce

Will focus on technologies that are energy efficient

Follows similar move made by other countries

Two countries also agreed to collaborate on digital technologies and skills

Includes reducing trade restrictions and increasing the sector’s skilled workforce

Will be used to advance climate modeling

Will help to develop substrates, device layers, and junctions

Chinese officials have reportedly claimed access to minerals could be restricted

Prime Minister Dick Schoof unlikely to renew licenses when they expire at the end of the year

However, terms and conditions do apply

Price of minerals has nearly doubled since sanctions came into force

Facility expected to be operational in 2027

Company planning to invest $18bn across the two states

INL also gets new computer

Project has been scrapped by Labour government

Fourth supercomputer purchased by science agency

Collaboration between 36 partners from 11 countries

Will be used to support chip manufacturer’s $3.87bn HBM plant in West Lafayette, Indiana