New semiconductor institute to oversee UK computer chip sector
An independent institute to oversee national strategy on expanding the UK’s semiconductor industry is to be created, the Government has announced.
The UK Semiconductor Institute will bring together the Government, university researchers and the private sector to oversee growth in the computer chip sector, the Department for Science, Innovation and Technology (DSIT) said...
Currently, production in the sector is dominated by Taiwan, but last year the Government launched a one billion-pound strategy to boost UK innovation.
This is a hugely significant milestone on our journey to becoming a science and tech superpower by 2030
"Sir" Keir Starmer will be cross, this sounds like just the kind of idea Labour would come up with. A national innovation strategy with lots of plans and visits to pleasantly interesting places where innovation can be studied and lessons learned.
However - instead of a boring title such as the UK Semiconductor Institute which already sounds like a dull old buffers' watering hole, it could be called the Hypersonic Strategy 2, or HS2 as a snappy acronym.
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Great, the Government is involved. That should work then...
The 'White Heat of Technology' updated for the Digital Millennium. What could possibly go wrong? Still it creates another raft of jobs for the Clerisy.
That word 'oversee' could hide a wealth of interference and power grabbing. There will obviously have to be an 'Office' to ensure compliance. The Office of Chip Sector Growth... OffChip perhaps?
To court the long-neglected white working class vote, I suggest he calls the initiative "Keir's Chippy".
James - HS3 comes next.
Bucko - yes, can't build a railway from London to Manchester, but those advanced microchips are easy to knock together.
DJ - I think another raft of jobs for the Clerisy is what it's about, nothing else at all. I doubt if they expect it to succeed, although they would never say so.
Sam - ha ha, I bet he's pleased it was dreamed up on Sunak's watch.
Operation Twerp Speed.
Whenever any government gets involved in things like this I am reminded of the Ronald Reagan quote.
"If it moves, tax it. If it keeps moving, regulate it. And if it stops moving, subsidize it."
Are they doing it backwards or are we at stage three already?
Government driven technology hmmm. It's currently being tried in th US by the Biden administration, spending a fortune on building centres of chip manufacture to be staffed by private companies in the sector. Unfortunately they've hit a snag, many of the companies have had to back out and relocate back in the far east, because of the democrats diversity and inclusivity hiring rules and they can't get capable staff as a result. Chip production is complex and very cutthroat competitive and is not amenable to woke. Not that the US now has an abundance of trained and educated engineers left anyway. Y ou can just imagine the situation in Britain. Anyone remember INMOS?
dearieme - ha ha - "we're giving it all we have, Minister, three committees going full bore."
Andy - good point, we do seem to have skipped two stages and rushed straight into stage three. The whiff of racketeering is there already.
Tammly - yes, diversity and inclusivity hiring rules and problems hiring capable staff seems to be one of the lurking cankers holding back any attempt to turn things around.
STEM students, we don't do them any more. Even literate and numerate school leavers, despite the extra years tacked on. The other essential being cheap energy. Hah!
Yes, INMOS. ICL. BLMC, BAC, British Shipbuilders, Tidal and Wave energy, Ferguson Shipbuilders, NHS, Caledonian Macbrayne ( c.f. Pentland Ferries), BBC, ..... Come on, think. There must be something, not a monopoly, that the Government, ie us, subsidise that has been a success.
Doonhamer - "There must be something, not a monopoly, that the Government, ie us, subsidise that has been a success."
I'm working on it...
...no still working on it...
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