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CHIPS For America Awards in Pennsylvania

Powerex (Pennsylvania)

Award Amount
$3 million in direct funding
CHIPS Organization
CHIPS Program Office
The CHIPS for America award will provide Powerex direct funding to support the expansion and modernization of its backend power semiconductor production facility in Youngwood, Pennsylvania, onshoring the power module assembly and packaging pipeline for industrial markets and the defense industrial base.

Coherent (Pennsylvania)

Proposed Award Amount
up to $79 million in proposed funding
CHIPS Organization
CHIPS Program Office
The proposed CHIPS investment would also support the expansion of the facility’s SiC epitaxial wafer manufacturing capacity, back-end of line processing, electronic performance, and reliability testing capabilities. SiC substrates are an important bandgap material with end uses in energy and military applications.

Powerex (Pennsylvania)

Proposed Award Amount
up to $3 million in proposed funding
CHIPS Organization
CHIPS Program Office
The proposed investment in Powerex would support the modernization and expansion of the company’s back-end production facility in Youngwood, Pennsylvania.

Infinera (Pennsylvania)

Award Amount
up to $93 million in direct funding (split across Bethlehem, PA and San Jose, CA)
CHIPS Organization
CHIPS Program Office
The CHIPS for America investment will support the construction of a new, state-of-the-art advanced test and packaging facility focused on meeting the increasing demand for InP PICs.

Tiptek LLC

Award Amount
$289,999
CHIPS Organization
CHIPS SBIR
Develop new high-speed nanoprobes to enhance the ability for semiconductor failure analysis to locate and analyze to detect "soft" electrical faults that occur on the most advanced semiconductors and are otherwise difficult to detect. This project will benefit researchers and semiconductor failure analysis engineers in the U.S. semiconductor industry.
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