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US awards $1.5bn to GlobalFoundries for domestic semiconductor production


Vice President Kamala Harris has announced that the US government will award $1.5 billion to expand semiconductor production.

The company will build a new semiconductor production facility in Malta, New York, while also expanding existing operations there and in Burlington, Vermont, as laid out in an initial agreement with the Commerce Department. Freelance Journalist Rachael Davies has spent six years reporting on tech and entertainment, writing for publications like the Evening Standard, Huffington Post, Dazed, and more. As well as writing, she also has experience in editing as the UK Editor of The Mary Sue, as well as speaking on the important of SEO in journalism at the Student Press Association National Conference.

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