(Bloomberg) -- GlobalWafers Co., a Taiwanese manufacturer of silicon wafers used in chip production, is in line to receive $400 million in US government help for projects in Texas and Missouri.

The U.S. commerce department has finalized a US$406 million CHIPS Act grant to Taiwan's GlobalWafers to increase production of silicon semiconductor wafers, used in chip manufacturing, at its ...

What Happened: The grant will facilitate the establishment of the first high-volume U.S. production of 300-mm wafers for advanced semiconductors and expand silicon-on-insulator wafer production.

July 17 (UPI) --Two U.S. tech firms soon could build manufacturing facilities to produce 300mm silicon wafers ... funding for domestic production of semiconductor wafers and chips that would ...

After initial manufacturing, silicon wafers undergo a process called doping ... the 48C Investment Tax Credit, the 45X Production Tax Credit, additional grant funding for the Defense Production Act ...

Silicon wafers are critical components in chip manufacturing and larger wafers are widely used in advanced chip production as they allow for more chips to be produced per each wafer, increasing ...