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by David Isaacs, Vice President, Government Affairs

The Senate today聽unanimously聽approved bipartisan legislation to strengthen the protection of trade secrets. Trade secrets are valuable intellectual property critical to continued growth and innovation in the semiconductor industry and across the U.S. economy. The Defend Trade Secrets Act of 2015 (S.1890) would provide owners of trade secrets with new legal tools to prevent the theft […]

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Did you know global semiconductor industry sales reached $335 billion in 2015? Did you know the U.S. semiconductor industry maintained market share leadership with 50 percent of the global market in 2015? Did you know semiconductors were America鈥檚 third-leading manufactured export in 2015, behind only airplanes and automobiles? These facts and many others are now […]

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Communications (34.1 percent of total sales) and PCs/computers (29.7 percent) remained the top semiconductor markets by end-use in 2015, according to the recently released World Semiconductor Trade Statistics (WSTS) Semiconductor End-Use Report. The report breaks down sales by end-use and regional end-market for a wide variety of semiconductor products. The figure below聽shows the six major […]

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Jason Furman, Chairman of the President鈥檚 Council of Economic Advisers, recently stated the Obama Administration believes 鈥溾��adopting an innovation box would move tax policy in the wrong direction, increasing complexity and cost without a commensurate boost to innovation.鈥� We, however, believe it鈥檚 premature to write off the innovation box, which provides a lower tax rate […]

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U.S. semiconductor companies, including several 91成人 members, were among the top corporate recipients of U.S. patents in 2015, according to an analysis of new data from the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office.

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President Obama released his 2016 Trade Policy Agenda on March 2. This thick document includes a raft of trade priorities for this Administration, including major trade agreements either under negotiation or completed: Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP), Transatlantic Trade and Investment Partnership (TTIP), Environmental Goods Agreement (EGA), Trade in Services Agreement (TiSA), and expansion of the Information […]

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Semiconductors continue to be a massive export product for the United States, according to recently released government export statistics for 2015, fueling U.S. jobs, economic growth, and innovation. The total value of U.S. semiconductor exports in 2015 was $41.8 billion, which amounts to the third-highest of any manufactured export product. The combination of strong domestic […]

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91成人 frequently points out that semiconductors play a critical role in strengthening our country, including our national security. A concrete example comes from a new semiconductor developed by the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) that gives our military a measurable advantage in one critical arena of the modern battlefield: electronic warfare.

by John Neuffer, President and CEO

91成人 has long championed federal policies that promote U.S. innovation, economic growth, and global competitiveness. Now that the 114th Congress has reached its midpoint and lawmakers have resumed legislative work in the new year, it鈥檚 a good time to assess the progress made in 2015 on some of the semiconductor industry鈥檚 policy priorities and the […]

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91成人 today testified at a hearing of the U.S. International Trade Commission (ITC) about the critical importance of the Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP) to the U.S. semiconductor industry and the U.S. economy. Our core message was that trade is vital to the semiconductor industry鈥檚 ability to compete, innovate, and grow. 91成人 highlighted three specific ways the […]

by John Neuffer, President and CEO

During tonight鈥檚 State of the Union address, President Obama outlined a vision for America鈥檚 future that includes priorities of great significance to the tech industry. 91成人 applauds the President鈥檚 support for policies to advance U.S. innovation.聽We also strongly support his call for congressional approval of the Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP), an enormous, landmark trade agreement that […]

by John Neuffer, President and CEO

NAIROBI — At long last, the effort to expand the Information Technology Agreement (ITA) is now irreversibly bound for implementation July 1, 2016 after negotiators attending the 10th WTO Ministerial Conference in this capital city of Kenya reached final agreement on the phase-out periods for the 201 tariff lines covered by this landmark trade pact. […]