United States White House set up a special group, supports Intel, Qualcomm, Apple chips companies to foreign competition-IT information

United States local chip industry is facing increasingly fierce competition from overseas, therefore, United States Government hopes to set up a new Panel of experts, to ensure that domestic enterprises in the coming years the leading position in the industry.

Overall, the current United States electronic chip industry isn't too bad, according to White House statistics, up to now, the chip industry remains the United States's third largest export industry and has about 250,000 employees. Intel (Intel) remains the world's largest chip makers, but its competitive advantage is increasingly slipping.

2011 United States President Barack Obama's tour of Intel's chip manufacturing plant

This is mainly due to two points. First of all, companies that specialize in low power processor, such as ARM in the field of mobile chips than Intel and AMD such big companies more competitive. Secondly, local companies like Apple, although parts of the mobile chip has been by the United States domestic design company, but the hardware itself manufacture but often rely on imports.

In addition, they also face a bigger threat-China, China has invested 10 billion dollars used to subsidize local electronics chip markets. Meanwhile, Moore's law slow down through the industry headaches.

Now, this comes from Intel, Qualcomm and Microsoft working group composed of senior industry experts is designed to overcome these difficulties. In a statement, the White House Office of science and technology policy Director John Holdren, explained, the group will seek domestic and international electronic core of the chip industry is facing challenges, and United States remain in the leading position in the field give specific views.

In fact, it was meant to explore the potential of new strategies, such as exploring smaller chip size and faster speed to build more professional processors, and then focus on investment. Although most of these companies from the United States Government, but there are some private or overseas companies in Austin, Texas, for example, Samsung has promised to invest $1 billion to build its own chip-making factory.

A "native" iPhone now seems out of reach, but at least its internal chip will be more local produce.

美国白宫成立特别组，扶持Intel、高通、苹果芯片企业应对海外竞争 - IT资讯

美国本土电子芯片行业正面临来自海外的日趋激烈的竞争，为此，美国政府希望成立一个新的专家小组，以保证在未来几年本国企业在该行业的龙头地位。

整体来看，当前美国的电子芯片产业状况也不是太糟糕，据白宫方面统计，截至目前，芯片产业仍是美国第三大出口产业，同时拥有约250000个雇员。虽然英特尔（Intel）仍是世界最大芯片制造企业，但它的竞争优势却在日益下滑。

2011年美国总统奥巴马参观英特尔芯片制造工厂

这主要归因于两点。首先，那些专攻于低耗能处理器的公司，如ARM等在移动芯片领域比英特尔和AMD这样的大公司更具竞争力。其次，像苹果这样的本土公司，虽然移动芯片部分一直由美国国内公司设计，但是硬件本身制造却通常依赖于进口。

除此之外，它们还面临一个较大的威胁——中国，中国已投入100亿美元用于补贴其本土的电子芯片市场。与此同时，摩尔定律的放缓也让整个业界感到头疼。

现在，这个由来自英特尔、高通、微软等业界资深专家组成的工作组旨在克服以上困难。白宫科技政策办公室主任John Holdren在声明中解释道，该小组将力寻国内和国际电子芯片产业正面临的核心挑战，并就美国如何继续保持在该领域的领导地位给出具体意见。

实际上，这意味着将要探索新的潜在策略，例如探索用更小的芯片尺寸和更快的运算速度来构建更专业的处理器，然后对其进行重点投资。虽然这些企业大多来自美国政府，但其中也不乏一些私营或者海外企业，例如三星就已承诺在德克萨斯州的奥斯汀市投资10亿美元建造其自己的芯片制造工厂。

一个“土生土长”的iPhone虽然目前看似遥不可及，但至少其内部芯片将更多的实现本土制造。