Micron Technology Inc. will invest about $15 billion over the next 10 years in a new memory-chip manufacturing facility in Boise, Idaho, where it is based, the company said on Thursday.
The investment takes into account anticipated federal grants and credits under the CHIPS and Science Act and will create 17,000 jobs by the end of the decade.
President Joe Biden last month signed a bill to provide $52.7 billion in subsidies for semiconductor production and research and to boost efforts to make the United States more competitive.
“Today’s announcement by Micron is another big win for America,” Biden said in a statement. “We will make EVs, chips, fiber optics and other critical components here in America and we will have an economy built from the bottom up and middle out.”…