Britain | Dear as chips
Britain’s semiconductor strategy shows the bind the country is in
But a modest approach may be the sensible one
It was the underwhelming announcement the industry had been waiting for. On May 19th the government unveiled a £1bn ($1.2bn) decade-long dollop of funding aimed at boosting Britain’s semiconductor sector.
This article appeared in the Britain section of the print edition under the headline “Dear as chips”
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