The Semiconductor Industry Association (SIA) is the premier trade association representing the U.S. semiconductor industry.  Founded in 1977 by five microelectronics pioneers, SIA unites over 70 companies that account for nearly 90 percent of the semiconductor production of this country.

Our coalition provides domestic semiconductor companies a forum and a voice to advance the global competitiveness of the $118 billion U.S. microchip industry.  Through a network of corporate CEOs and working committees, SIA helps to shape public policy on issues critical to the industry.  SIA also provides a spectrum of services to aid members in growing their own businesses.

Driving Progress and Results

Among major domestic industries, the semiconductor industry is unique. Every year, chipmakers boost performance dramatically while cutting prices, continually making high-technology goods more productive and affordable for consumers. The benefits to the U.S. economy of this "more for less" manufacturing dynamic are dramatic. In the past five years, information technology, fueled by faster and cheaper chips, has reduced the U.S. inflation rate significantly and has doubled the nation's productivity growth rate.

With the SIA, U.S. semiconductor companies are addressing significant challenges:
Educating and recruiting a highly skilled workforce.
Attracting the best and the brightest to study at U.S. universities.
Enacting immigration reform to enable foreign-born engineers and scientists educated in America to live, work, and contribute to progress in the United States.
Maintaining America's world leadership in semiconductor technology.
Supporting basic research at U.S. universities.
Promoting fair and open trade.
Protecting intellectual property.
Providing safe working conditions in production facilities.
Protecting the environment.
Collecting, analyzing, and distributing statistical information on the global semiconductor industry.
Uniting an Industry of Innovators
The Semiconductor Industry Association provides every chip company-large, small, integrated, or fabless-with a powerful voice. Collectively, we continue to make tremendous progress in trade, technology, public policy, occupational safety and health, environmental concerns, industry statistics, and government procurement.

Each step forward is a tribute to the willingness of our members to commit time, people, and money to such projects. In turn, SIA member companies influence the industry agenda through their participation on committees- thereby ensuring positive outcomes on critical issues and reaping the concrete rewards of the association's many successes.

For the latest documents on SIA issues (including Congressional letters, statistics, and policy papers) , please contact:
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