U.S. Senate passes bill that provides $52 billion in semiconductor funding
(Windows Phone Central)

The stimulus train has left the station. What you need to know The global semiconductor crisis attracted government attention many months ago. $52 billion in semiconductor funding has long been waiting for U.S. Senate approval. The bill containing said funding just passed. The U.S. Innovation and Competition Act is a long overdue one. It grants $250 billion in funding, subsidies, and more, all aimed at boosting the United States` technological prospects. Though the bill is being positioned as an American response to China`s strides toward technological dominance, there is a less divisive perspective one may choose to view the bill from: That of a certified gamer™ who just wants access to an NVIDIA RTX 3060 Ti GPU with which to juice up their RGB-adorned PC. One of the biggest casualties of the semiconductor shortage has been computer component availability, with the best graphics cards also being among the hardest to find anywhere online or in stores. The shortages are so ext...