Polar Semiconductor Received $123 Million of Federal Funds With Plans to Expand [Video]
Walk into the clean room at Polar Semiconductor, and you’ll encounter a different world.
Anyone who enters is required to wear protective clothing.
A row of chambers is bathed in yellow light — less harmful to the microchips made here.
But change is coming to this Bloomington semiconductor manufacturer.
“Very excited, thrilled actually, with all the expansion plans we have,” declares Rajesh Appat, the company’s vice president of Technology and Development.
Those expansion plans come after the awarding of $123 million in federal funds as part of the CHIPS and Science Act — an initiative to bring microchip manufacturing back to the U.S.