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Natcast, the non-profit organization created to run the U.S. CHIPS & Science Act’s National Semiconductor Technology Center (NSTC) told the majority of its staff they would be laid off this week, IEEE Spectrum has learned. A small core team will continue on to shut Natcast down over the next few weeks, a person familiar with the matter said.
The organization was founded in 2023 to run NSTC, which the law established to conduct “research and prototyping of advanced semiconductor technology and grow…
