The Biden administration is giving nearly $7 billion to a project run by a former top executive of the failed green energy company Solyndra.
Brian Harrison, the former CEO of Solyndra, is now president of an Arizona subsidiary of the Taiwanese chipmaker TSMC, according to The Washington Free Beacon. Harrison is heading a project to build a semiconductor manufacturing plant in the United States, part of a push by the U.S. to on-shore production of valuable advanced semiconductors that are in large part produced in Taiwan, which is under threat from Chinese expansion.
U.S. Secretary of Commerce Gina Raimondo announced on Monday that the federal government has granted Harrison’s project $6.6 billion as part of the on-shoring process. She said the partnership with TSMC will bring “the manufacturing of the world’s most advanced chips to American soil,” according to CNBC.
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