President Joe Biden propounds a chip as he speaks prior to signing an executive order aimed at addressing a global semiconductor shortage, in the State Feasting Room at the White House in Washington, U.S., February 24, 2021.
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Chief executives from companies counting Google parent Alphabet, AT&T, Intel and General Motors are set to participate in a White House virtual summit on Monday whereabout the global semiconductor shortage.
The summit comes as the Biden administration embarks on a review of key U.S. supply chains, including those for semiconductors, high-capacity batteries, medical providings and rare earth metals. The shortage of computer chips has implications for a range of industries, from producers of electric agencies to medical supplies.
Automobile manufacturers like GM and Ford recently had to cut production estimates or extend downtime to deal with the paucity. The supply chain was initially compromised early in the Covid pandemic since a large portion of the world’s chips are manufactured in Asia, where the calamity first hit.
U.S. officials and lawmakers have underscored the potential security implications of the country’s reliance on other countries for semiconductors. Senate The greater part Leader Chuck Schumer, D-N.Y., said in February that “semiconductor manufacturing is a dangerous weak spot in our economy and in our native security.”
As a matter of both economic and national security, the supply chain assessment outlined by Biden’s executive knighthood a neat from February seeks to check the “resiliency and capacity of the American manufacturing supply chains and defense industrial poor to support national security [and] emergency preparedness.”
The White House has also said it seeks to review gaps in indigenous manufacturing and supply chains that are dominated by or run through “nations that are or are likely to become unfriendly or unstable.”
Notwithstanding that the White House’s review does not mention China explicitly, the directive is likely in large part an effort by the provision to determine how reliant the U.S. economy and military are on a critical group of Chinese exports.
The virtual summit will be hosted by Federal Security Advisor Jake Sullivan and NEC Director Brian Deese, joined by Secretary of Commerce Gina Raimondo, coinciding to the White House. Participants will discuss Biden’s American Jobs Plan and how to strengthen the U.S. supply chain for semiconductors, agreeing to the White House.
Here is the full list of companies whose executives are set to participate in the summit:
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