DALLAS (WBAP/KLIF) – U.S. Senator John Cornyn joined North Texas businesses General Motors, Toyota, Raytheon, and Qorvo on Thursday at the Perot Museum of Nature & Science in Dallas to highlight their challenges with a semiconductor shortage and how it affects North Texas consumers, jobs, and national security.
Last year, Senator Cornyn authored the CHIPS for America Act to help restore semiconductor manufacturing on American soil, with the goal of creating high-paying American jobs, helping U.S. manufacturers with supply chain certainty, and ensuring the United States remains competitive globally in leading-edge technological innovation. His bill was enacted into law on January 1, 2021.
The roundtable came as the Senate is likely to vote on funding for programs created under his bill later this month, and after Senator Cornyn led more than 70 of his colleagues in sending President Biden a letter urging him to fund the programs his bill created to protect the semiconductor industry in both Texas and the United States.
According to Cornyn, the majority of semi-conductor manufacturing is done in Taiwan, which to him is a cause for concern.
“It’s a vulnerability we cannot afford to have,” said Senator Cornyn. “If for some reason, through a pandemic or through military conflict, should China decide to unify with Taiwan, the results would be catastrophic for the United States and the rest of the world.”
Following the roundtable, Senator Cornyn toured the museum’s Texas Instruments Engineering & Innovation Hall exhibit chronicling the rise of the semiconductor and its popular applications.
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