On June 13, ORF America hosted the second Chips for Breakfast, a private roundtable to facilitate frank conversations among a select group of current and former U.S. government and foreign government officials, industry representatives, and academic experts about the current state of U.S. semiconductor policy,  U.S. technology leadership, and collaboration with like-minded partners to strengthen international commerce and security.

This second roundtable focused on key insights and takeaways from a recent closed-door Workshop on Technology Alliances and Emerging Technologies that  ORF America hosted in Washington, DC in early June. In addition, participants discussed the genesis of the CHIPS Act in Congress, and deliberated its current status as well as political and funding challenges ahead of its further implementation. Participants pointed out the crucial role of workforce development in light of domestic investments by U.S. and foreign semiconductor companies.