{"id":153563,"date":"2022-12-25T05:22:36","date_gmt":"2022-12-25T11:22:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2022\/12\/compound-semiconductors-let-there-be-light-speed-and-power"},"modified":"2022-12-25T05:22:36","modified_gmt":"2022-12-25T11:22:36","slug":"compound-semiconductors-let-there-be-light-speed-and-power","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2022\/12\/compound-semiconductors-let-there-be-light-speed-and-power","title":{"rendered":"Compound semiconductors: Let there be light, speed and power"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/compound-semiconductors-let-there-be-light-speed-and-power.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>It now costs between $3bn-4bn to build a silicon chip fabrication plant (fab plant), and consequently, there are relatively few fabs around the world.-from 2019.<\/p>\n<hr>\n<p>UK companies get ahead of the curve with investments in R&amp;D and fabrication infrastructure for next-gen electronics. Andy Sellars, Chief Business Development Officer, UK Catapult, explains the strategy.<\/p>\n<p><i>Artificial intelligence (AI) and quantum computing require compound semiconductors to achieve full commercialisation<\/i>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It now costs between $3bn-4bn to build a silicon chip fabrication plant (fab plant), and consequently, there are relatively few fabs around the world.-from 2019. UK companies get ahead of the curve with investments in R&amp;D and fabrication infrastructure for next-gen electronics. Andy Sellars, Chief Business Development Officer, UK Catapult, explains the strategy. Artificial intelligence [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":534,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[43,1617,6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-153563","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-business","category-quantum-physics","category-robotics-ai"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/153563","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/534"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=153563"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/153563\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=153563"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=153563"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=153563"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}